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The Features
Wed. May 29 | The Nashville, Tenn.-based
indie band incorporates strains of krautrock
and psychedelia and sometimes echoes
Kings of Leon, on whose label the band
released 2012’s Wilderness. The Features
just released a self-titled album. At Hi-Ho
Lounge. PAGE 36.
Down the Dirt Road Blues
Thu. May 30 | Spencer Bohren chronicles
the evolution of roots music and instrumentation by following a single song from a slave
ship to the South to Chicago and into the
hands of Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.
At the Old U.S. Mint. PAGE 36.

Pine Leaf Boys
Fri. May 31 | In the midst of a busy
festival season, the Pine Leaf Boys are
finishing an album before heading on summer tour in the Northeast and West Coast.
Catch the Cajun band at d.b.a. before it hits
the road. PAGE 36.

JUNE

Megan Hilty | Although NBC recently cancelled the musical drama

Smash, its star Megan Hilty consistently shone. Her Broadway roles include
Glinda in Wicked and Dolly Parton’s character in 9 to 5: The Musical, and
she’s appeared on TV in Louie, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Desperate Housewives. She performs at NOCCA. PAGE 36.

Back to the Beach
Sat.-Sun. June 1-2 | The festival features
a custom and classic car show, a run/walk
and music by The Yat Pack, Chee Weez,
The Boogie Men, Bucktown All-Stars,
The Topcats and others. There’s also a
volleyball tournament. At Laketown in
Kenner. PAGE 49.
Mobb Deep
Sun. June 2 | Reunited and celebrating
20 on-and-off, up-and-down years,
Queensbridge bosses Prodigy and Havoc
have survived a prison sentence, a specious
Twitter spat and the looming shadow of an
all-time classic, 1995’s The Infamous. At
Maison. PAGE 36.

will donate 500 copies of Happy Johnson’s book The Adventures of Happy and
Big Wanda to New Orleans
schoolchildren this summer.
Gentilly Trace Elementary
School received 100 copies
last week. Johnson’s book
prepares children for hurricane season. The Team Happy Foundation, Big Easy Kiwanis Club, Royal Engineers and Lindy Boggs National Center for
Community Literacy sponsor the giveaway.

The City of New Orleans

received the Bronze Bicycle Friendly
Community Award from the League of
American Bicyclists May 20. The award
recognizes the city’s bike
infrastructure improvements,
including 58 miles of bikeways
and plans to build another 10
over the next year. The League
of American Bicyclists uses
advocacy and education programs to
promote bicycle fitness and transit.

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Paula and the
Pontiacs perform at a
benefit to help reopen
Jimmy’s Music Club
on April 4, 2013.

The legendary Jimmy’s Music Club may be on
its way back to presenting live music, but first it
needs to satisfy the Alcohol Control Board, City
Council and its Uptown neighbors.

PHOTO BY ROBERT MORRIS |
UPTOWN MESSENGER

By Robert Morris | Uptown Messenger

W

hen the New Orleans Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
(ABO) rejected a request by Jimmy’s Music Club May 21,
it may have seemed like the hand of The Man slapping
down the former punk rock haven once again.
The reality, however, is that attorneys, city officials and even
the club’s neighbors agree that Jimmy’s may be closer to reopening than it has been in the last year.
Technically, club owner Jimmy Anselmo and his partners in
Lucky Tab LLC were requesting last week to appeal the denial
last year of their application for a liquor license. Their argument
— an unusual one — was that when liquor license applications
are denied, they must be appealed to the city’s independent
Alcohol Control Board. And because the basis for that denial
was a moratorium preventing any new businesses from selling
alcohol in the Carrollton area without permission of the New
Orleans City Council, Anselmo was essentially asking the board
to declare the City Council’s moratorium illegal.
The board — made of council appointees — was, unsurprisingly, having none of it. For months, commissioners have said for
months that Jimmy’s had two options — appeal the moratorium to
the council like other new Carrollton businesses have done, or
file a lawsuit against the moratorium in Civil District Court.

“This board does not have the power to say that something
the City Council did is illegal or unconstitutional,” said board
member Jerry Speir, a Carrollton resident appointed by District
A Councilwoman Susan Guidry. Keeping the Jimmy’s item
before the alcohol board simply confuses the public, Speir said:
“There is nothing to be gained in my opinion from keeping this
on our docket.”
With that, the board members voted Jimmy’s off the docket
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and out of the room, without so much as a comment from Anselmo
himself or the dozen or so supporters he brought with him.
This time around, however, something was different. Prior to the
hearing Anselmo, his partners and attorney Michael Tifft had spent
about an hour outside the council chambers in private conference
with city attorneys. Tifft said they were advising the Jimmy’s team to
pursue a traditional appeal of the alcohol moratorium through the
City Planning Commission and City Council.
“That was the first real breakthrough we got from City Hall,”
Tifft said afterward. “I see it as a risky process, but they did indicate that the mayor’s office is committed to seeing us through
the process.”
Another tentative “breakthrough” has been with the Carrollton
Riverbend Neighborhood Association (CRNA). Anselmo met
personally with association members in February and several of
its leaders reminisced about their own days at the original Jimmy’s
Music Club. Their main concern is that Jimmy’s does not become
a repeat of the Frat House bar; Anselmo leased the space to that
club for about five years until it closed in 2012 following neighborhood complaints and charges of underage drinking.
“CRNA and the neighbors support Jimmy’s reopening — if it’s
done right,” said Jill Stephens, an association member leading
nearby residents in discussions with Jimmy’s about a good-neighbor agreement. “We just want the problems that existed at the Frat
House to never happen again. Since the property is owned by the
same person, we have no comfort that they wouldn’t happen again.
The memory of that is still fresh.”
The negotiations thus far have centered on Jimmy’s responsibility for outside litter, noise from the bands and patrons’ conduct
outside the bar. But one sticking point has emerged — whether
to allow customers younger than 21 inside the bar to hear music.
In order to book bands that draw an audience from the nearby
universities, Jimmy’s needs to be able to admit customers age 18
and older, Tifft said. He said he met his future wife outside the
original Jimmy’s — he was 18, she was 17 and she was left standing outside because she was too young to go in.
Neighbors say those youngest patrons tend to cause the
most problems, however, so restricting the bar to people of legal
drinking age will help the neighborhood get behind the club. (It’s
unclear if the club could open as an all-ages venue, but Tifft says
Anselmo doesn’t want to, anyway.)
“If we can close that gap, we’ll be very close to a solution,”
Stephens said.
If Jimmy’s pursues an appeal, the City Planning Commission will
weigh it first, and then it will go to the City Council. Guidry — the
target of Jimmy’s supporters’ ire since proposing the moratorium
— declined to say what she would do at that point, but signaled
that the neighborhood’s support would be crucial. “If a developer
or a business owner can work things out with the neighborhood,
including the near neighbors, that always creates a more positive
path to whatever the business is requesting,” Guidry said.
The City Council already has a pending ordinance, proposed
by Council President Jackie Clarkson, to make all bars in the city
21-and-up — a proposal that has been docked in the criminal justice committee for months. Guidry said she actually doesn’t favor
the blanket approach in Clarkson’s ordinance, but that individual
circumstances must be considered — as in the case of Jimmy’s.
“Of course that’s something we’ll be looking at carefully,” Guidry
said. “This same owner allowed a nuisance bar to operate at that
location that these neighbors had to deal with from 2007 to 2012.
A lot of the problem was underage drinking.”
If the City Council route ultimately fails, Jimmy’s still has one
other option: sue over the legality of the moratorium. And that
path was served by the alcohol board’s rejection, Tifft said —
based on city code, the alcohol board had to rule before he
could turn to the courts.
“On one hand, we lost at the ABO board,” Tifft said. “On the
other hand, we’re free to sue if we want to.”
— This story was produced with our partners at Uptown Messenger. Read more at www.uptownmessenger.com.

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Janine Waters, left, and Christie
Jourdain of the Original Pinettes
Brass Band showed up to
give blood at the “Frenchmen
Street: Roll Up Your Sleeves”
event put on by the New
Orleans Musicians’ Assistance
Foundation and The Blood
Center.
PHOTO BY KEVIN ALLMAN

The clubs on Frenchmen Street were open, with Ben
Polcer playing at the Spotted Cat and the Washboard
Chaz Trio at d.b.a., along with other bands. Jeff Broussard, bar manager at Snug Harbor, donated ice and
opened the club’s bathrooms.
“I was worried the rain would keep people away,”
said Liz Freeman, a volunteer with the New Orleans
Musicians’ Clinic, “but it’s not. This is great.”
After the jab, donors with “I Gave Blood” stickers on their shirts received free Radiators CDs and
restorative snacks and juice. The goal of 50 pints was
reached and topped within the first two hours of the
drive, according to Dudas. And neither threatening
gray skies nor a swarm of Formosan termites kept
people from donating. By the end of the evening, 117
pints of blood had been collected by eight volunteer
nurses, and nearly 200 people had tried to donate,
according to The Blood Center.
“This is definitely the best blood drive I’ve been to,”
said Jocelyn Ninneman of OffBeat magazine, one of
the event’s sponsors. “Only in New Orleans could you
have a blood drive that has three areas of live music
and local food.”
Chittenden, of The Blood Center, said she wasn’t
sure how much blood would be needed to replenish the amount used by the shooting victims, but that
the “replenishment” was largely symbolic. The Blood
Center is called upon to donate 300 to 350 pints of
blood per day to New Orleans hospitals, Chittenden
said, adding, “In cases like this, people want a way to
help and we provide it.”
— Additional reporting by Megan Braden-Perry

wo enormous bloodmobiles — one in neon
chartreuse, the other, well, blood-red — stretched
down Frenchmen Street from the Apple Barrel
to the Spotted Cat May 22. The event was called
“Frenchmen Street: Roll Up Your Sleeves,” and it was a
replacement blood drive for the 19 victims of the Mother’s
Day second-line shooting in the 7th Ward — a shooting
that had occurred seven blocks away down Frenchmen
Street May 12.
More than 100 people preregistered to give blood
between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., according to Amanda Chittenden, The Blood Center’s public relations manager.
“But the first 12 people we got were all walkups,” said
Erica Dudas of the New Orleans Musicians’ Assistance Foundation, the group that staged the blood
drive.
The event — held in the concrete pad that’s home to
the Frenchmen Art Market — was busy from the start,
with would-be donors lining up and musicians David
and Roselyn serenading the crowd with a song appropriately called “Kiss It and Make It Better.”
“New Orleans has given us a lot,” Roselyn said.
“Helping other musicians is just what you do.”
Among the first donors were Janine Waters and
Christie Jourdain of the Original Pinettes Brass Band,
who said they’d heard about the drive on Facebook
and TV news. Both are friends of second-line chronicler and Gambit contributor Deborah Cotton and said
they showed up in tribute to her. Cherice HarrisonNelson (“Queen Reesie”) of Guardians of the Flame
and Queen Rita Johnson of the Mohawk Hunters also
came out to donate, as did Ed Buckner of the Original
Big 7 Social Aid & Pleasure Club, which had staged
the Mother’s Day second line.

ast week’s horrific tornado, which
killed 24 people in Moore, Okla.,
served as a reminder that the
southern United States is in its severe
weather season. For those of us who
remember the scenes following Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods nearly
eight years ago, the televised images of
destruction, despair and hopelessness
were all too familiar. Sadly, the people
who live around Oklahoma City had been
there before — in 1999, when a tornado
outbreak killed dozens of people and
devastated Moore. There’s not much you
can do when a twister of that magnitude is
bearing down on your house, but preparation can and does save lives.
This week is the National Hurricane
Center’s (NHC) annual Hurricane
Preparedness Week, and longtime New
Orleans residents know that means it’s
the time for an annual review of hurricane
readiness preps. The many people who
have moved to New Orleans in recent
years should remember that a hurricane’s
intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale is
a relative thing. A strong tropical storm

per day, with a three-day minimum. Some
people fill their bathtubs to ensure a water
supply. Other essentials include a tool
kit, medicines, fire extinguisher, large
garbage bags, a change of clothes and
shoes. Keep some cash on hand.
For people with small children, a supply
of diapers and toys is a must (and an iPad
or DVD player with headphones can be a
sanity saver). Pet owners need a supply
of food, a carrier and proof of up-to-date
vaccinations. Find out if your shelter of
choice takes pets — but under no circumstances stay put during an evacuation
because you aren’t sure what to do with
your pets. Get out and take them with you.
Keep your car gassed up from June
through November. Get your car inspected in early June and be sure to change the
wiper blades. A container of wet wipes
in the car is a good idea, along with a
trash bag; evacuations are long and it’s
not always possible to leave your vehicle.
If you evacuate, take important papers
(including insurance information) as well
as family photos — many of us learned that
one the hard way during Katrina.

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requires as much attention and preparation as a major hurricane. Last year’s
slow-moving, rain-soaked Isaac was a
tropical storm, yet many people in metro
New Orleans were left without power for
a week.
William Gray of the Colorado State
University Department of Atmospheric
Science is predicting a slightly busierthan-average hurricane season, with 18
named storms and nine hurricanes. Our
mild spring has nothing to do with what
New Orleans may or may not see this year
in the way of tropical events.
“Many hurricane forecasters are
predicting this to be an above-average
season,” says WWL-TV meteorologist
Derek Kevra. “A lot of the time, people
think a cool spring like the one we just had
means the water in the Gulf of Mexico is
going to be cooler, but that is not the case.
It has no bearing on hurricane season.”
This is the time for locals to check on
stockpiled supplies, replenishing and
replacing as necessary. Get fresh packs
of batteries for flashlights and batterypowered radios or TVs; eat the canned
goods you’ve stocked and replace them
with new ones. (Don’t forget the manual
can opener.) Stock up on bottled water
for drinking as well as washing — the
guideline is at least 1 gallon per person

And put a spare cellphone charger in the
car now — we relearned that lesson last
year during the blackouts after Isaac.
Check with elderly or infirm neighbors to verify their evacuation plans. In
a mandatory evacuation, freeways will
switch to “contraflow,” meaning all roads
will lead away from the coast. Whether
you’re going to a motel, staying with family
or at a shelter, practice patience — and
plan ahead.
You can get more tips and sign up for
text alerts at the City of New Orleans
hurricane preparedness website, ready.
nola.gov (which performed well last year)
as well as at the Entergy New Orleans’
website (www.entergy.com). And the NHC
has issued an updated guide to preparing
for hurricanes; download yours at www.
bit.ly/prepare2013.
Most important, pay attention to local
meteorologists so you can plan early —
and if you’re told to leave, do so.
— Our partners at WWL-TV will air their
annual “Eye on Hurricanes” special June 3
at 7 p.m. The broadcast will repeat during
the week and can be watched at www.
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including iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.

jeremy alford
report from red stick

Howdy Doody time
If and when a budget passes, Gov.
Bobby Jindal may very well blame
lawmakers for sending him a terrible
document. a few lawmakers may in turn
blame Jindal for introducing one. But not
all legislators will challenge the governor. They’ve heard of Barham’s Siberia
and they are in no hurry to visit. Senate
chairmen and vice chairmen were called
into meetings last week and likely will fall
in line, along with their colleagues in the
Upper Chamber, where Howdy doody
time was first recognized for its political benefits.
These are troubling political times
that don’t relate well in the self-celebrity
world of social media, where Googling
“Howdy doody” and posting a few videos takes less effort than typing “Jindal
health care budget” and reading for an
hour or two.
Back in the real world, the health care
issue has become fueled by unexpected
and increasing costs related to the
administration’s ideology-driven push to
privatize public hospitals and to refuse
Medicaid expansion. Education is being
funded with change found under sofa
cushions while the courts overturn one
administration program after another.
Jindal’s failed tax plan, which was
supposed to be the session’s focus,
was probably the biggest Howdy doody
of the year. It sidetracked everybody.
Most lawmakers focused on Jindal’s
sideshow instead of the ailing budget,
although the House appropriations
Committee met for weeks before the
session convened april 8. More lawmakers should have joined them.
finally, we’re all Howdy doodies for
not getting more riled up. distractions
are easier to swallow than policy and
budget numbers.
The distractions may be even more
welcome in coming years, when the
state runs out of dedicated funds to
plunder in order to prop up higher
education and health care. a speech
from the strawberry queen will be a nice
respite from the debt that’s stacking up.
a bill declaring Bayou Pigeon the official
garfish capital just might one day be
enough to soothe nerves in the face of
increased outmigration.
We’ll practically need around-theclock Howdy doody, which, if Google is
to be trusted, was nothing more than a
marionette — and a fitting metaphor for
louisiana lawmakers. We all know who
pulls their strings.
— Jeremy Alford is a freelance journalist in Baton Rouge. Contact him at
Jeremy@jeremyalford.com. Follow him
on Twitter: @alfordwrites.

ew things were more comical than former state Sen. Joe
McPherson at his most frustrated. a self-described country boy
with a shock of salt-and-pepper hair and
a push-broom mustache, McPherson
hails from Woodworth, a community of
roughly 1,000 people just south of alexandria. He returned there after terming
out in 2012.
When the Upper Chamber would
stumble into its afternoon routine,
pausing so members could introduce
the louisiana Swine festival queen or
their insurance agent’s cousin from dry
Creek, McPherson eventually would
make his way to the mic. “Heeeerrreee
we go,” he would twang. “It’s Howdy
doody time!”
a graduate of the rural acting academy, he motioned in one speech to the
sides of the chamber. “Howdy doody to
you and Howdy doody to you. Howdy
doody to everybody!”
McPherson was funny even when
scolding colleagues for wasting time.
(He wasn’t above it all; in questioning another’s use of time, he once paid for and
distributed bumper stickers emblazoned
with “Jindal for V.P.”)
another comedic complainer was former Sen. robert Barham, now secretary
of the department of Wildlife and fisheries. Barham had caught the fury of former
Gov. Kathleen Blanco for switching parties, and he spent his final years noting
the topography, temperature and political
climate of Siberia, where he claimed the
“Queen Bee” had exiled him.
although he halfheartedly tried and
failed, McPherson couldn’t end the timehonored practice of senators indulging
in a little Howdy doody time. If anything, it has expanded in his absence.
lawmakers in this year’s abbreviated
session (which ends June 6) have
already competed against each other in
a football game, a basketball matchup
and a bowling tournament. all proceeds
went to charity, but some might argue
that their time and effort was borrowed
from taxpayers.
They’ve advanced bills creating a
barbecue cook-off for West Baton
rouge, exploring bass fishing as a new
high school sport, adding “I’m a Cajun”
to louisiana-issued identification cards
and slating money for film festivals.
Not that there’s anything shameful
about these competitions and causes.
They’re a part of the legislative process
and our collective culture. Yet they’re
hard to swallow when, in the final two
weeks of the session, there’s no making
sense of the budget, which ignores
the long-term funding needs of higher
education and health care.

I live across the street from the Old
Mint, but I don’t know much about
it. When did it stop making money
or being used as a mint? What is
its function today? I see tents go
up on the lawn sometimes. What
are they for?

DEAR ABBY,
The Old U. S. Mint, designed by architect William Strickland of Philadelphia,
was built on the site of Fort St. Charles,
and is the only mint to produce both
American and Confederate coins. Built
in Classic Revival style, the structure
cost $180,000 and opened in 1838.
Its walls range from 18 inches to 3 feet
thick, and it is constructed of river mud
brick and stucco with granite trim.
The mint was authorized on March 3,
1835, and President Andrew Jackson,
hero of the Battle of New Orleans,
signed the bill. Yellow fever, other illnesses and delays prevented the facility
from opening until 1838.
The mint was transferred to the
Confederacy when Louisiana seceded
from the Union in 1861, and it produced
Confederate coins and housed troops.
Operations halted in April 1862, however, when federal troops occupied New
Orleans and, on the morning of April
25, raised an American flag in front of
the mint. Professional gambler William
Mumford quickly tore down the flag,
dragged it through the streets and shredded it, for which he was court-martialed
and publicly executed by hanging from a
flagstaff on the mint.
Coining operations were suspended
from 1862 to 1879, but during that time
the mint served as an assay office, where
metals are tested for purity. The mint
resumed making coins in 1879, the only

The Old U.S. Mint has made
coins, housed prisoners and was
the scene of a public hanging.
Now it is a state museum.
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Southern mint to do so. Minting ceased
in 1909.
During its years of operation, the Old
U.S. Mint produced more than 427 million gold and silver coins with a value of
more than $307 million.
From 1909 until 1932, the building
housed an assay office, then it had a
new role: federal prison, which lasted
until 1942. The following year, it housed
members of the U. S. Coast Guard,
and for a while after World War II, it was
used as a storage facility.
In 1966, ownership of the Old U.S.
Mint was transferred to the state. The
building was completely renovated and
reopened to the public in 1983 as a
state museum. It is a National Historic
Landmark and the oldest surviving
structure in the country that served as
a federal mint.
The New Orleans mintmark is an “O”
at the bottom of the back of the coin. If
you can find one, the 1838 O half-dollar
could be worth a lot of money. The New
Orleans mint struck just 20 in proof
format, most likely to commemorate the
facility’s opening. Of historical note:
The coins were the first half-dollars
to be struck at a branch mint, and one
of the earliest U.S. coins to include
a mintmark.
The building currently is home to the
Louisiana Historical Center, The New
Orleans Jazz Club Collections of the
Louisiana State Museum and a performing arts center. The tents you see from
time to time are set up for both private
and public events, including free music
concerts and film screenings.

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• States, districts or schools are not
restricted in any way from adopting
additional standards outside the Common Core, which is merely a set of basic
goals for knowledge and skills based on
higher expectations. Common Core also
encompasses professional development,
better use of technology and feedback for
teachers, students and parents.
Concerns that have arisen in a few
states seem to center on the speed or

Common Core is
most successful
when proper
time and support
are given to train
teachers and
prepare students
prior to testing.
quality of implementation, not the standards themselves. If there is a lesson to
be learned from the experience of other
states, it would be that Common Core is
most successful when proper time and
support are given to train teachers and
prepare students prior to testing.
The bottom line is simple: The
Common Core is not being forced on
Louisiana by the federal government; it’s
not a national takeover of public education; and it doesn’t threaten Louisiana’s sovereignty.
Safeguards need to be in place to
ensure it is implemented appropriately and that student privacy rights are
protected. But Louisiana also needs to
move forward. This is the next phase in
the evolution of our school accountability
model. It builds on our successful efforts
of the past, and we should embrace it
without delay.

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he Louisiana Senate struck a
blow for educational standards
and improvement last week. It
did so by summarily defeating a resolution requesting the state Department
of Education and the state Board of
Elementary and Secondary Education
(BESE) to cease implementation of the
Common Core State Standards Initiative
in public education.
The topic of educational standards may
sound boring, but the resolution elicited more than two hours of sometimes
surreal testimony in the Senate Education Committee.
So what is the Common Core initiative?
It’s a voluntary program launched by the
National Governors Association in 2009
that 45 states — including Louisiana —
have joined thus far. The goal is to align
educational standards across the country
to provide a clear understanding of what
students should know and be able to do at
various stages of their development.
It’s not a standard curriculum, and it
doesn’t tell teachers how to teach or how
to run their classrooms. It’s simply a set
of standards that suggests, for example,
what types of math equations a student in
fifth grade should be able to perform or at
what level a sixth grader should be able to
read and comprehend. The standards set
a level of rigor for students that has been
lacking in Louisiana. They’re designed to
prepare students for the real world in a
way that’s relevant and reflects the knowledge and skills they’ll need to succeed in
college and beyond.
Listening to some of the debate, you
might have thought it was part of a plot
to undermine the youth of Louisiana.
The words “communism” and “socialism” were tossed around, along with
the suggestion of a federal plot to control curricula.
Fortunately, there was also testimony
from educators who are implementing the
Common Core standards. They praised it
for its rigor, saying it will help raise student
achievement in Louisiana and give us a
better indication of how our students perform compared to those in other states.
The Council for A Better Louisiana
(CABL) supports Louisiana’s ongoing
implementation of the Common Core. We
do so for a variety of reasons that we think
make common sense:
• Louisiana’s previous standards and
LEAP tests were developed 16 years
ago and were right for the time. Although
we have raised our standards, they are
still lower than national standards. This is
evident when you look at the performance
of Louisiana students on the state LEAP
tests compared to the national NAEP
assessment. Louisiana’s minimum is
not enough.
• The world’s economy constantly
changes. Our kids need to know more to

— Barry Erwin is the president of the
Council for A Better Louisiana (CABL),
an organization that focuses on issues of
importance to the state.

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Faith
no

Former Pentecostal preacher
Jerry DeWitt went from small-town
Louisiana minister to atheist. Now
he’s trying to spread a different word.

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BY ALEX WOODWARD

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his has been the loneliest experience in
the world.”
Jerry DeWitt sighs. After a whirlwind year
of renouncing his faith along with his 25 years in the
Pentecostal ministry and discussing it in a New York
Times profile, the former minister nurses the flu at his
home in DeRidder, La. In a few weeks his memoir, Hope
After Faith, will be released.
“It’s so ironic that it borders on being tragic,” he says,
“that this once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon can happen
and there’s literally nobody to celebrate it with.”
DeWitt still looks and sounds like a Louisiana
preacher. His black hair is often pulled back high and
tight and neatly parted, framing a round face and a trim
beard. He speaks with a warm Southern lilt. During the
last year, however, he has emerged as something of
an atheist leader. It’s cost him a lot, he says — respect
from the town he loves, as well as his friends, his job
and his family.
“Normally, if a story about you ended up in the New
York Times, or if you ended up with a book deal, it would
be cause for Louisiana-style celebration,” he says. “I
think that’s the reason why I’m so bent, so determined,
to make Louisiana proud. I’m determined to create a
secular community in a Louisiana way.”
Born into a family of ministers in neighboring Rosepine,
DeWitt spent most of his life in DeRidder in Beauregard
Parish. DeWitt’s grandfather helped build churches
throughout Louisiana. A couple of miles down the road
is the church of his grandmother, the “Pentecostal
religious matriarch” of the DeWitt family. Less than
a mile in the other direction is Grace Church, where
DeWitt spent the latter half of his ministry. From a young
age, DeWitt was expected to follow the family mold.

“The Pentecostals who raised me were not
community activists. They weren’t involved in trying to
shape policy, or in larger charitable acts or anything like
that,” he says. “We were pretty exclusionary. … It was the
only avenue, only profession, only method that existed in
my world of trying to make peoples’ lives better.”
In 1986, at age 16, DeWitt visited Jimmy Swaggart’s
megachurch in Baton Rouge, where he was “saved.” At
17, he joined the ministry, delivering passionate sermons
to congregations along the Gulf South.

felt like I was in this position to say to people, ‘Y’all come
and meet me where I’m at.’ Instead I always felt like I was
trying to help them on their own path. Even now, I don’t
go out and try to de-convert people from Christianity. I
don’t post things (on the Internet) with intentions of trying
to shake people’s faith. I’m still a pastor. I try to help
people where they’re at, and very much allow them to
figure out where they’re going.”
DeWitt preached about heaven and hell, but couldn’t
shake the feeling there was a more human, less biblical

“I’m still a pastor. I try to help people
where they’re at, and very much allow
them to figure out where they’re going.”
After a few months of dating, he married Kelly
Lee Swain. He was 20; she was 18. Two years later,
the couple had a son. The family preached together
throughout the South. In those few short years, DeWitt
became a rising star in the Pentecostal community.
“But I really wasn’t that great of a Christian evangelist,
because my heart was always just checking in trying
to deal with where I was at — spiritually, intellectually,
doctrinally,” he says. “I guess because there was always
a certain amount of uncertainty in my own life. I never

and less “superstitious” method to reach his flock.
“These become priorities that outweigh starvation,
the climate, any other form of life enrichment that a
humanist would naturally be concerned with,” he says.
“What difference does it make to end hunger if all
those people go to hell with full bellies? All of a sudden
my humanism had been hijacked with this idea of
eternal punishment and salvation. … Those people, I’ve
lived in their homes, I’ve ridden in the car with them for
hours, I feel like I know so many of their hearts. I think

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“I grew up thinking that one day
I’ll get old enough and all the fun will
be over, and I’ll submit myself to the
Lord,” he says. “Then suddenly hell
became my responsibility. It became
my obligation to warn these people
I loved in the congregation that their
actions could condemn them to hell
for all eternity. Somewhere in the midst
of that, somewhere the formulas didn’t
seem to add up. I thought, ‘Is it really
true that the creator of the universe
would send a young lady to hell for all
eternity because she felt peer pressure
at school and trimmed her bangs?’”
Late one night, while searching
on the Internet, DeWitt found online
communities of ministers who also
questioned their doctrines and faiths.
He joined The Clergy Project, an
anonymous online refuge for clergy
members who no longer believe
in God. He also reached out to
Recovering From Religion, a postclergy support group.
“Once the Bible itself begins to lose
its divinity, before long everything is on
the table,” he says. “Once you begin to
question our traditions, you eventually
question your superstitions.”
DeWitt delivered his last sermon in
April 2011.
DeWitt changed his Facebook
religious views to “secular humanist.”

they’re humanists who have been
hijacked by antiquated theology.”
DeWitt served as DeRidder’s code
enforcement officer from 1998 to
2004, when he began preaching full
time. He resumed working for the city
of DeRidder in 2006 as director of
community services. He never truly
left the ministry — city officials knew it
was good business to keep a religious
figure close to City Hall.
“The preachers are still the kingmakers and they’re able to make
or break you,” he says. “Why be
the tribal leader when you can be
the shaman?”
In a 2009 story from the Beauregard
Daily News, DeWitt is described as
“an avid reader. His preferences are
history, nonfictions — especially about
sociology and religion. He’s also a
self-proclaimed Internet junkie. When
a city is as intent on improvement as
DeRidder is, it takes a certain type
of person to do the job. DeRidder is
lucky to have … such men working for
its citizens.”
He had a natural rapport with the
ministers, but DeWitt’s secular job
forced him to work alongside different
denominations and philosophies.
Then the doubts crept in. DeWitt felt
trapped, but his flock was satisfied
with his public message despite his
private concerns.

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Hope After Faith
In this excerpt from Hope After Faith, Jerry DeWitt describes
his mother’s disappointment when a Pentecostal revivalist
preacher is unable to “heal” his sister Britney, who has
Down’s syndrome.

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y reevaluations of what had been the most cherished
moments in my life of faith — my conversations with
God — were both energizing and enervating. I was
feeling more in control of my life — particularly when it came to
the panic attacks that were plaguing me — yet I believed that
I could have a deep, intimate relationship with God. When a
minster named Charles Pierce, who had a reputation within
the United Pentecostal movement for presiding over a healing
ministry without peer, held a revival at the United Pentecostal
Church in Leesville, I felt that I had to attend to revalidate what
I had experienced in my revival
days. Arriving at the United
Pentecostal Church on a cool
Sunday morning in the early
spring of 1999, I took in its tall,
cathedral ceilings, white molding,
and color-coordinated pews and
carpet with a mix of disdain and
envy. Its clean, sparse design
reminded me of a funeral home
and I had long felt whenever
I walked into expensively
decorated sanctuaries that it was
wasteful of the Lord’s money. At
the same time, I was envious —
and desperately wanted to be
a part of — the upper class of
Pentecostalism and could be
just as harsh in judgments when
I visited a poor church with an
old, staticky sound system or an
unpaved parking lot.
But when Brother Pierce, a
slender, square-shouldered,
middle-aged minister who wore
a clean white suit, began the
service and ministered to the
congregants individually, I was
far from impressed. Brother Pierce addressed churchgoers
with a very vague and general diagnosis of their problems —
Sister, are you feeling ill? Brother, are you dissatisfied with your
job? — and he ministered from the distance of the stage, which
only added an even more impersonal feel to the proceedings.
About halfway through the service, however, Brother Pierce
walked down the small set of stairs from the stage and into
the aisles. To my horror, it seemed as though he was walking
directly toward me. God is using Brother Pierce to chastise
me, I thought nervously to myself, about just how doubtful I had
become and how far I had moved from my Evangelizing days.
To my great relief, Brother Pierce passed by my seat to focus on
a slender man in his early sixties with scraggly facial hair who
was seated in a pew behind me. The man had a disheveled look
about him and he wore a tattered suit jacket that appeared to be
about 30 years old with threads poking out from it. There were
deep stress lines in his face — he was, as the saying goes, rode
hard and put away wet. When Brother Pierce stood three feet
away from the man, he asked him to stand up. The man rose
from the pews and stood silently before Brother Pierce.
“Let’s talk about your relationship with God,” Brother Pierce
said. “I know that you’ve been closer to God than you are now.”
The man nodded his head in agreement. “Yes, Brother Pierce,”
he murmured. “I know that you’ve had habits, that you’ve gone
to smoking,” Brother Pierce continued, bringing another nod of

His family discovered his online history, and
The Clergy Project announced DeWitt as
its first pastor-turned-atheist. The town of
DeRidder was stunned.
“Disappointed, shocked betrayed, lied
to,” DeWitt says. “I’ve had people contact
me and try to nail down what I believed
and when, for them to know whether their
baptism was valid.”
In June 2011, two months after his last
sermon, his wife left him. The city fired him in
December of that year.
He took over as executive director of
Recovering From Religion. In April 2012,
DeWitt “came out” at the American Atheists’
Convention “Reason Rally,” where he
unveiled his atheist preacher persona.
“I’m not just trying to be an atheist with a
smile,” DeWitt says. “I’m still very nostalgic
for a lot of Christian culture. I can still very
easily attend a service and unlike so many of
my counterparts, I wouldn’t run out throwing
up. This is family, this is culture, this is
tradition, and that’s why I don’t say I lost my
faith — I feel like I graduated from it.”
With a preacher’s sing-song affectation,
DeWitt’s “sermons” involve pumped fists
and pointed fingers while he rocks back and
forth on his heels. (“I found myself down in
such a low place. I was all alone, trapped.
I’m going to tell you, brother,” he preached
at an Arkansas Society of Free Thinkers
meeting in 2012. “But little did I know my
mind was completely filled with all the wrong
things. Religion had completely baptized me
in falsehoods. … Can I get a Darwin?”)
“I felt like to not be myself would be to
condemn myself to living a lie, to walking
around a facade, the same way I felt I had
been doing religiously the next few years,”
DeWitt says. “So I just got up and did my
preacher thing, and I’ve been pushing
that now for the last year. … I know there’s
a large portion of Louisiana that will
resent me or hold me suspect because
of my religious views. At the same time I
want to make Louisiana proud, and show
our way of communicating, our way of
building community is so special and is
so successful that it even will work in the
secular realm. My intention is to continue
being a minister.”
Last August, The New York Times
published a profile of DeWitt, “From BibleBelt Pastor to Atheist Leader,” unmasking
DeWitt and putting DeRidder on the map.
The Beauregard Daily News, DeWitt’s
local paper that had praised his civil
servitude, didn’t report DeWitt’s conversion
until he appeared at a DeRidder City
Council meeting. A local law group had
requested a zoning change to house its
office inside Fellowship Hall of Assembly
of God Church. “Here was the only known
atheist in the community defending my
grandfather’s vision for his church,” DeWitt
says, laughing.
The story concluded with the reveal:
“DeWitt is well-known for his life change

creation

evolution

Jerry DeWitt was born into a family
of Pentecostal ministers.
In 1986, at age
16, Dewitt visited
Jimmy Swaggart’s
megachurch in
Baton Rouge, where
he was “saved.”

DeWitt changed
his Facebook
religious views
to “secular
humanist”.

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At 17, he
joined the ministry,
delivering sermons
to congregations
along the Gulf
South.

The Clergy Project
announced DeWitt
as its first pastorturned-atheist.

“Quite honestly,” DeWitt says, sighing,
“I’m afraid how things are going to be
when the book comes out.”
The morning after The New York
Times published DeWitt’s profile, agents
and publishers flooded his Facebook
and email inboxes.
“I’m not a writer. I’m a preacher,”
he says. “How is it possible that this
Southern-fried Pentecostal preacher is
sitting in a hot tub of water reading an
email from Simon and Schuster?”
DeWitt connected with New Orleans
journalist Ethan Brown, best known for
Shake the Devil Off, which chronicles
Iraq War veteran Zackery Bowen’s
return to New Orleans before Hurricane
Katrina and the gruesome murder he
commits after the levee failures. The two
spent four months revisiting DeWitt’s life
and career, pulling out memories and
fleshing out the details.
“It was truly therapeutic,” DeWitt
says. “It was four months of intense
counseling. It caused all these pieces
to click together in a way that I think it
would’ve taken a lifetime to get as well as
I was by the time the book was over.”
The book, Hope After Faith (Da
Capo Press), will be published June 25.

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DeWitt is bracing himself for
the attention.
“I’m horrified,” he says, laughing.
“I’m worried about the next wave
of rejection.”
Aside from the occasional
glances from conservative
Pentecostals at his local Walmart,
DeRidder hasn’t faced any serious
criticism, he says. He has no
plans to leave DeRidder, though
he preaches on the road during
public speaking tours. He’s booked
throughout Florida in December.
He also serves on the board of
The Clergy Project and Foundation
Beyond Belief, assisting former
clergy members and fellow
humanists find a community.
“(In Louisiana), it’s easy for days to
turn into weeks and weeks to turn into
years in the process of just getting by
and doing good,” he says. “We don’t
necessarily have institutionalized
breaks where we stop and debate
theology. What we’re trying to do is
build community and enrich the lives
of those people around us. …
“How do we create secular
communities? … How do we meet
the needs of secular people in a way
that religious communities are able to
meet those needs? How do we meet
those needs in a Louisiana way?”

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to Atheism.”
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His book, Hope
After Faith (Da
Capo Press), will be
published June 25.

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talons, bones and barbs; and Sliver, her
latest collection of gracefully carved
stakes, spears and spikes.
There’s even a “Canine” collection
— engraved dog tags in brass or
white bronze — inspired by the artist’s
Rhodesian ridgeback, Whistler (who is at
the shop as often as McCollam is).
All of McCollam’s jewelry pieces
are cast in fine metals from original
prototypes and sent to professional
casters. Some are made from hard wax
sliced with a sharp knife; others are
sculpted in clay; still others use computerassisted design to create a pattern, which
is then laser-cut in metal. McCollam’s
background in design, architecture
and graphic art contributes toward a
distinctive style.
Later this year McCollam will launch a
hardware collection of pulls and knobs.
As for her bridal collection, McCollam is
heartened by the response so far.
“People are really liking the fact that
our jewelry looks so different,” she says.
“They can customize, they can mix and
match, they can have something that truly
suits their own style as individuals and as
a couple.”

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to Marion Cage (3719 Magazine
St., 504-891-8848, www.marioncage.com) for contemporary pieces
inspired by nature and architecture.
Now designer Marion Cage McCollam
is seeing a new subset of customer:
unconventional brides and grooms.
McCollam’s recently launched
collection of wedding rings includes
the work of two other jewelry
designers, Carla Caruso and Rebecca
Overmann. They are her friends and
contemporaries, and like McCollam’s,
their pieces are powerful and
minimalistic, with organic inspirations
evident in their elegant simplicity and
flow. “Carla’s is more dainty; Rebecca’s
is more sculptural,” McCollam says.
“Our styles really complement each
other and our work is cohesive.”
Though their styles are their own, the
three designers’ offerings can be worn
together, even stacked on the same
finger. Overmann’s eye-catching bands
evoke water, stone, leaves and bark, while
Caruso’s have details like tiny dots and
scalloped edges. McCollam’s wedding
styles include stackable bands of small
brown or black diamonds set in white,
yellow or rose gold or black rhodium.
“It’s a nontraditional approach to the
wedding ring,” McCollam says.
McCollam designed jewelry for years
before she launched her shop. An
architect, she began making jewelry to
vent creative impulses frustrated by the
constraints of the building business. “A lot
of architects need an outlet,” McCollam
says. She got her start from clients who
owned retail shops and asked to carry her

Access to locally produced foods is
improving quickly around New Orleans.
Just ask anyone gearing up for this year’s
Eat Local Challenge, which asks participants during the month of June to eat
foods produced within a 200-mile radius
of New Orleans.
“It’s so much easier now than when we
started this, and that was just three years
ago,” says Lee Stafford, co-founder of
the annual event. “We can get more food
at the grocery stores and there are more
specialty shops for some of the stuff that
had been hard to find before, especially
meat. The first week is still hard, but once
your refrigerator is filled with all local items,
you’re good to go.”
Stafford and New Orleans native
Leslie Brown, a Covington pediatrician,
started the Eat Local Challenge as a
way to encourage people to explore the
richness of local foods and connect with
local food producers. It since has evolved
into a month of events, from workshops
about making your own wine, sausage or
gelato to a bicycle tour of urban gardens
to wild berry foraging excursions along
the batture.
This year, there will be a garden-to-glass
cocktail contest June 17 at the Old New
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WINE OF THE week
BY BRENDA MAITLAND
Email Brenda Maitland
at winediva1@earthlink.net

In France’s Rhone region, grenache
is used as an elegant blending grape.
Spain’s sun-drenched, dry Aragon region,
which includes Calatayud, is a great
place to grow “heavy” fruit like garnacha
(the Spanish name for the grape). Here
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the grape’s unique character and style.
This all-garnacha wine’s
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blackberry. On the palate,
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ratatouille, coq au vin, cannelloni, wild
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Salu, Basil Leaf, Capdeville, Cowbell, 45
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op-up burger joints, taco stands and Italian dinners
can be fun. But at its highest and best use, a pop-up
restaurant can introduce or test the market for food
that’s otherwise absent from established places. That’s part of
the reason for the creation of Milkfish and its Filipino menu of
lumpia eggrolls, pancit noodles and Spam fried rice.
Local restaurant veteran Cristina Quackenbush, a native
of the Philippines, staged her first pop-up last spring. It led
to an encore, then to a weekly gig at Marie’s Bar, a Marigny
dive that’s become a pop-up incubator. Soon, a fan invited
her to take over the kitchen in his neighboring coffee shop,
the Who Dat Cafe.
Tucked behind the barista counter, Milkfish still retains
some trappings of a pop-up. But it also features service
more like a full-fledged restaurant, with table service, an
inexpensive wine selection and a few Philippines-inspired
tropical drinks.
Filipino food is a fusion of Latin American, Chinese and
southeast Asian cooking, and it’s robustly expressed at
Milkfish. But while many traditional Filipino dishes have the
mishmash contours of comfort food, Quackenbush draws
from her long career in fine dining to compose original, striking contemporary renditions.
The best example is the namesake milkfish, a staple in
the Philippines with white, firm flesh and a strong, oily flavor
akin to a sardine. Its other name is bangus, and I’m not sure
which of these terms is least appetizing. But in Quackenbush’s kitchen, milkfish is grilled, doused with creamy,
shrimp-studded coconut milk curry and topped with an
intensely spicy red cabbage slaw that rivals kimchee. The
result is a unique showstopper.
Assertive garnishes, artfully arranged bok choy and long
beans and precisely molded rice shapes are hallmarks of
Quackenbush’s style, even for the burly oxtail vertebrae
of kare-kare. Fist-sized columns of bone and meat are
smothered in stew that is a bit slimy and gray but powered by
a surprisingly compatible combination of peanut butter and
garlic and ignited by dabs of pungent shrimp paste. Your
whole palate may tingle after eating this, and your lips will
stick together.
Pork turns up everywhere, from the brittle-crusted,
cigarillo-sized lumpia and the dark-seared ribs in the classic
adobo, to unwieldy fried pig feet (best reserved for pig cultists) and “pork face,” which sounds provocative but tastes
like especially tender, garlicky carnitas when mixed with
chicken livers for sisig, a spicy, sizzling, fajitalike dish. There
are vegetarian alternatives for most dishes but they rely too
much on mock meats.
End a meal with the mellow cassava cake, dripping with
coconut milk and topped with cheddar, or the Asian-style
shaved ice parfait called halo-halo. Unique food like this is
always worth a try, and when it’s all put together as well as it
is at Milkfish, it could become a habit.

interview
Orleans Rum Distillery (2815 Frenchmen St., 504-945-9400; www.oldneworleansrum.com) for drink recipes using
all-local ingredients at 6 p.m. May 31, the
day before the start of the eat-local month,
Rouses Market CBD location (701
Baronne St.) will host a kickoff party at the
rooftop garden.
“That’s a chance to mingle with people
who have done it before and get some
of their tips,” says Anne Mueller, an Eat
Local Challenge organizer.
Mueller completed the challenge
last year and says the experience was
especially valuable for helping her teach
her young son what really goes into their
meals. Her experience also demonstrates that there are different ways to
approach the Eat Local Challenge. An
self-described “addict” to iced coffee
and certain New Zealand wines, Mueller
says she couldn’t commit completely to
the 200-mile radius rule. But that’s fine,
because people can sign up for the Eat
Local Challenge at different levels, from
“ultrastrict,” which is just as it sounds, to
“ultra ultra lenient,” for people who just
want to give it a shot for a few days.
Participants don’t have to rely entirely on home cooking either. Forty New
Orleans restaurants have promised to
offer at least one Eat Local Challengecompliant dish on their menus in June,
more than three times the count of last
year’s participating restaurants. Eat Local
Challenge registration costs $25. Sign up
online at www.nolalocavore.org or at the
May 31 kick-off event.

Refreshing
seafood concept

CuLINARY BICYCLE TOuR GuIDE

f you spot Cassandra Snyder leading a group of bicyclists around town,
chances are they’ll be stopping to eat soon. Snyder runs the Culinary Bike
Tour for Confederacy of Cruisers (504-400-5468; www.confederacyofcruisers.com), which provides a hands-on overview of New Orleans’ food
history. Snyder worked in restaurant kitchens and catering jobs around New
Orleans, and she previously conducted historic cooking demonstrations at the
Hermann-Grima House. Today, she’s a pretty handy bicycle mechanic too.
: Stops on your tour range from po-boys at Parkway Bakery to African food at Bennachin. What’s the organizing principle here?
Snyder: We look at it as a progressive lunch and the diversity is the point. We
do not always eat what people might think of as classic Creole food. The idea is
to get people into what the locals eat. And these people come prepared. They
almost always have a list of restaurants they want to try, and they’re always running those lists by me. We’re talking about restaurants the whole time.

: What difference does it make that you’re all on bicycles?
S: That’s part of the magic of this thing. The pace is really what makes it. If we
run into a second line and someone’s selling pies, we’ll stop and I’ll make sure
they get some street food, because that’s a really important part of the story.
I tell them it’s a culinary adventure. We get some type-A people who want to
know exactly what we’re going to do, but a big part of it is being flexible for some
of the spontaneity of this city and that’s not all at restaurants. In the spring, we
might get crawfish and beer and go to City Park.
: What’s it like leading strangers around for a progressive meal?
S: One of the things I love about it is bringing people together. It can be tricky
sometimes when you have these different personalities and they’re all supposed to ride around and eat together. But something always seems to happen
to bring them together. It’s usually something about the food and convening together, but sometimes we might find out everyone in the group is playing hooky
from the same convention. — IAN MCNuLTY

and herb sauce, seared snapper with
grapefruit beurre blanc, a tuna tartare
with watermelon and cucumber and a
chunky smoked snapper dip to spoon
onto grilled ciabatta. Dinner entrees cost
between $18 and $23, and lunch has
more po-boys ($11-$14).
The seafood gumbo is served with
potato salad, a country tradition not
seen much in New Orleans. The
crawfish bisque is done in an even less
familiar style, with the bisque basically
drizzled like a sauce over a half-dozen
stuffed crawfish heads. Watch for
specials like grilled snapper neck and
stuffed flounder.
Basin Seafood took over the address
formerly occupied by Rocky’s Gourmet
Pizzeria. It’s a casual spot with a small
bar and fishing camp decor of animal
prints and bamboo screens. A rear patio
has views into the boiling room.
The bar serves interesting cocktails
(the Yucatan firecracker is made with
tequila, grapefruit syrup and pickled
jalapenos) and offers a short but smart
wine list. Gruner veltliner is a good match
for seafood and costs $6 a glass. Basin
Seafood serves lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday.

Next door to Basin Seafood, renovations are underway for a pizzeria called
Amici, which will serve pizzas cooked
in a coal-fired oven. The restaurant is
expected to open in mid-June at 3218
Magazine St., which had been the home
of Byblos (3242 Magazine St., 504894-1233; www.byblosrestaurants.com)
before that Middle Eastern restaurant
moved a block up the street last year.
Amici’s menu is not yet available, but
marketing manager Michelle Jones says
the restaurant’s concept is centered on
its coal-fired pizza oven. This approach
to pizza is far more common in the pizza
hubs of the Northeast, and it typically
produces crisp, thin-crusted pies with
an element of smokiness from the
coals. Rocketfire Pizza Co. (1950 N.
Hwy. 190, Covington, 985-327-7600;
www.rocketfirepizza.com) is another
local example.
Amici concept will have an “icehouse,”
which Jones describes as a beer bar
with about 50 brews on tap, along with
frozen liquors.
Jones says Amici is aiming for a “familyfriendly” feel. It’s also a concept the company may expand in the future.

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“Right now, kale is enjoying a moment.
Kale is considered a superfood, rich with
vitamins and minerals, but it is also an
increasingly classy food. Kale is presently
positioned firmly in the category of foods
enjoyed by those rich in cultural capital,
though fortunately you don’t need economic capital to acquire it. Kale is now
something people feel that they need to
learn to eat and cook, to be initiated into,
or even to feel smug about enjoying.”
— Sara Davis on the impact of social factors on food preferences, on the website
Table Matters.

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Chef Edgar Caro made his name
in New Orleans at his restaurant Baru
Bistro & Tapas (3700 Magazine St.,
504-895-2225; www.barutapas.com),
where he serves dishes from his native
Colombia. The food at his most recent
venture, Basin Seafood & Spirits
(3222 Magazine St., 504-302-7391), has
a lot more to do with his adopted Louisiana home, and also with his partner in
the new restaurant.
Caro recently opened Basin Seafood
with Tommy Peters, a former fishing
guide whose family operated a fishing
charter business out of Venice, La. Caro
was one of their clients, and Peters says
he was always impressed by what the
chef could do with the day’s catch once
he got it dockside – or even before then.
“We caught a snapper one time and
he made it into ceviche right there on the
boat,” Peters says. “It was just four ingredients and it was the best ceviche I’d ever
had. We’ve been friends ever since.”
At Basin Seafood, the short menu takes
a straightforward, more modern, often
lighter approach to Louisiana seafood
than the fried and boiled template, joining
what’s turning into a promising trend
around town. There is a fried seafood platter, a shrimp po-boy and, while they’re in
season, boiled crawfish. But then there’s
whole grilled fish with roasted jalapeno

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Orleans. Dollar signs represent
the average cost of a dinner
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GALLEY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
— 2535 Metairie Road, Metairie,
(504) 832-0955 — Galley serves
Creole and Italian dishes. Blackened
redfish is served with shrimp and lump
crabmeat sauce, vegetables and new
potatoes. Galley’s popular soft-shell
crab po-boy is the same one served
at the New orleans Jazz & Heritage
Festival. Reservations accepted for
large parties. Lunch and dinner tue.Sat. Credit cards. $$

KILLER POBOYS — 811 Conti St.,
(504) 252-6745; www.killerpoboys.
com — At the back of Erin Rose, Killer
Poboys offers a short and constantly
changing menu of po-boys. the Dark
and Stormy features pork shoulder
slowly braised with ginger and old
New orleans Spiced Rum and is
dressed with house-made garlic mayo
and lime cabbage. No reservations.
Lunch and dinner Wed.-Sun. Cash
only. $

GRAND ISLE — 575 Convention
Center Blvd., (504) 520-8530;
www.grandislerestaurant.com — the
Isle sampler, available as a half or
full dozen, is a combination of three
varieties of stuffed oysters: tasso,
Havarti and jalapeno; house-made
bacon, white cheddar and carmelized
onions; and olive oil, lemon zest and
garlic. the baked Gulf fish is topped
with compound chili butter and served
with local seasonal vegetables and
herb-roasted potatoes. Reservations
accepted. Lunch and dinner daily.
Credit cards. $$

SOUL FOOD
BIG MOMMA’S CHICKEN AND
WAFFLES — 5741 Crowder Blvd.,
(504) 241-2548; www.bigmommaschickenandwaffles.com — Big
Momma’s serves hearty combinations
like the six-piece which includes a
waffle and six fried wings served
crispy or dipped in sauce. Breakfast
is served all day. All items are cooked
to order. No reservations. Breakfast
and lunch daily, dinner Mon.-Sat.
Credit cards. $

Offensive
coordinator
Comedian Anthony Jeselnik
returns to New Orleans.
By Will Coviello

A

The show has drawn some
outrage and complaints.
“The show is more subversive
(than his stand-up act), because
we frame it like a regular late-night
show,” Jeselnik says. “People
think we’re going to talk about normal things, but I am talking about
the worst things in the world. That
can trick people into getting more
upset than they would.”
Jeselnik doesn’t consider
himself a shock comic.
“People say, ‘Oh you’re just
doing that to get attention,’” he
says. “No, I have the attention.
This is what I want to talk about.
I know I am funny and can craft
a great joke. My challenge is to
talk about something horrible
and make people laugh at it. You
have to be clever to make a good
joke. I am not trying to hurt people
or offend people. Some people
are going to be offended. But
why tone it down when there are
people who get it?”
Dark humor is nothing new to
comedy writers.
“People would say that in writers’ rooms the funniest joke is always followed by ‘Yeah, but we can’t
do that, so what else?’” Jeselnik says. “But why can’t
I do that? Why can’t I sell that on TV? [The Jeselnik
Offensive] is a comedy writer’s dream show.”
As was the case when he worked at Fallon’s
show, Jeselnik says he’s still got the darkest sense of
humor among his writers.
“It’s always, ‘How can we pull this off?’” he says.
“How can we show a baby going around in a dryer?
What do we have to do to make this work? That’s the
challenge. If I couldn’t do that, I wouldn’t want to be
on TV.”
Comedy Central recently picked up the show for
another season, which begins July 9 and runs eight
to 10 weeks. Jeselnik hopes to do another 10-show
season in winter, and would like to do two 15-show
seasons like Daniel Tosh’s Tosh.0.
Jeselnik’s sense of humor has its roots in
New Orleans.
“In college among my friends, it was always who
could say the most offensive thing or the most inap-

propriate thing that
was the funniest.
Comedy Central has commissioned a
I was never afraid
second season of Anthony Jeselnik’s
of failing.”
The Jeselnik Offensive.
But Jeselnik never
PHOTO BY TYLEr GOLDEN
tried doing comedy
in New Orleans.
“People in New
Anthony Jeselnik
Orleans don’t need
junE
7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday
comedy,” he says.
“They have their food
Harrah’s New Orleans
and booze and stuff.
8 Canal St.
You don’t need it.”
That’s one of the
(855) 234-7469
reasons he is happy
www.harrahsneworleans.com
to come back.
Tickets $35 (including fees)
“New Orleans is
my favorite city in
the world,” he says.
“I come back twice a
year just to eat. I used to come back just to drink, but
I got older.”

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fter Anthony Jeselnik graduated from Tulane
University with a degree in English, he moved
to Los Angeles to become a writer. After what
he describes as a disastrous first year in L.A., he
tried comedy.
“It’s a lot easier to get up and tell jokes every night
than get someone to read a piece of paper,” he said
from Los Angeles, a week before his first stand-up
performance in New Orleans.
Eventually, he landed a job as a writer for Late
Night with Jimmy Fallon. It didn’t go well.
“I came in like, ‘This is what I think is funny,’ and
they would be like, ‘That’s really funny to you, but
Jimmy can’t say this,’” Jeselnik says.
Did his material ever get on air?
“I remember this one joke, it wasn’t even dark or
anything. It was absurd. I thought it’ll be weird and
funny if he does this,” Jeselnik says. “It was Shakespeare’s birthday, and [Shakespeare] was born
and died on the same day. So Jimmy says, ‘Today,
Shakespeare was born in 16-whatever, and then he
died on this day in 17-whatever, and I don’t care what
anyone says, that guy was a great writer.’
“After that, they told me they had a meeting.
They decided they would never do any more jokes
like that.”
After a year, Jeselnik quit the show rather than
adjust his style of humor. His stand-up comedy and
an album did well and he became known for jokes
like one about a girlfriend.
“My girlfriend loves chocolate,” he would start.
“She’s always eating chocolate, and she likes to joke
that it’s an addiction. … So I put her in the car and
drove her downtown, and I pointed out a crack addict, and I said, ‘Do you see that, honey? Why can’t
you be that skinny?’”
Then Comedy Central hired him to write jokes
for roasts. He spent four weeks writing material for
the celebrity guests on the roast of actor and singer
David Hasselhoff. Comedy Central liked his work so
much, it put him on stage to roast Donald Trump.
Jeselnik’s dark humor was on track. He got his own
stand-up special on Comedy Central, and then the
network hired him to do his own show: The Jeselnik
Offensive. On it, he’s had guests try to guess whether
paintings are by a serial killer or a famous artist. In a
segment called “Sacred Cow,” he has joked about
racial issues, bullying and missing children (he asks
a private detective whether it’s better to use a “Help
me find my puppy” or “Who wants candy?” approach.
The detective advises the puppy approach.).

Go back in time — not that
far, say May 2011 — and tell a
member of The Men that in two
years the band would employ a
full-time lap steel guitarist and
draw Tom Petty comparisons,
and they’d have either laughed
you out of the building or staged a human sacrifice to the blown-out Wiccan rituals
“Think” and “L.A.D.O.C.H.” If that member was former bassist Christopher Hansell,
the sacrifice would be his own. The primordial force behind Leave Home’s stormy
hardcore audible would not survive that album’s tour cycle, replaced on 2012’s
Open Your Heart by the band’s audio engineer, Ben Greenberg, on bass and by lap
steel player Kevin Faulkner in spirit. Immediately, these were different Men: shoegaze and punk became classic rock and power pop, the diversion routes marked
not by guttural outbursts but by motorik grooves (seven-minute droner “Oscillation”),
slide rule (self-explanatory “Country Song”) or, in one rare case (the Kafkaesque
“Presence”), both. Led by a shuffling, sun-setting piano ballad (“Open the Door”),
March release New Moon (Sacred Bones) completes the metamorphosis, squashing any hope of reawakening the beast in its reckless pursuit of other, older muses.
“Half Angel Half Light” and “The Seeds” are near-perfect alt-’80s bar rockers, while
the back-to-back placement of “High and Lonesome” and “The Brass” — the quietest and loudest tracks — is both side change and olive branch: Everyone wins. Lovey
Dovies open. Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door. — NOAH BONAPARTE PAIS

OPENING
FRIDAY
AFTER EARTH (PG-13)
— a father and son (will
and Jaden smith) live on the
planet nova prime, where
earth residents moved after
cataclysmic events, and
their relationship is tested
when they find themselves
back on earth navigating its
hostile terrain.
NOW YOU SEE ME (PG13) — in the new orleansshot film, a federal agent
and interpol detective seek
to shut down magicians
who pull off heists during
their performances and give
audiences the money.

sPEcIAl
scREENINGs
BLACK DYNAMITE (R)
— this blaxploitation spoof
follows black action legend
black Dynamite, who seeks
to avenge the death of his
brother. Tickets $10.50

Richard Kuklinski is not
your typical cult figure.
The serial killer monetized
his behavior by working
for the Mob for more than
two decades, and he died
in 2006 at age 70 under suspicious circumstances while serving five consecutive life sentences for murder. He is believed to have killed more than 100 men —
but no women or children. A hit man must have principles.
Two main factors set Kuklinski apart from most psychopaths. Throughout his
career he successfully maintained a double life by balancing his murderous
activities with a mundane suburban existence, complete with a wife and kids who
knew nothing of his true calling. Once he was caught in 1986 and incarcerated,
he talked eloquently about his life with criminologists, psychologists, journalists
and filmmakers, detailing his horrifying crimes while calmly explaining how his
abusive father created a monster. The results included bestselling books and
a lurid HBO documentary series. Probably the most surprising thing about The
Iceman, a based-on-true-events Kuklinski biopic from co-writer and director
Ariel Vromen, is that Kuklinski’s fascinating story took 25 years to find its way to
the big screen.
Vroman does a nice job of recreating the dingy, low-rent feel of New York and
New Jersey in the 1970s, even though The Iceman was shot almost exclusively in
Shreveport, La. The Mob-centered movies from that era by directors like Scorsese and Coppola serve as obvious touchstones. But the reason people will be
talking about The Iceman well into next year’s awards season is Michael Shannon’s breakout performance in the title role. Shannon was nominated for a Best
Supporting Actor Oscar for 2008’s Revolutionary Road, and his star has risen
with his ongoing work on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. As the endlessly tormented
Kuklinski, Shannon delivers the kind of indelible work that leads to lifelong A-list
acting careers. By the end of The Iceman, you may be surprised to recognize
you’ve just spent two hours rooting for a cold-blooded killer to resolve his inner
conflicts and defeat the mobsters who abuse him — all in a movie that’s too
graphically violent for mainstream audiences. Shannon’s Kuklinski is that human
and real.
Familiar faces surround Shannon throughout the film — because that’s what
it takes to get a Hollywood movie made in 2012 when your star is a relative unknown. Winona Ryder turns in her best work in ages as Kuklinski’s wife, a woman
who makes an almost conscious decision to ignore the clues to her husband’s
double life. And Ray Liotta displays his usual flair as the mid-level mobster he’s
played too many times to count. James Franco and Stephen Dorff chip in with
single-scene performances, presumably so the producers could point to the very
fact of their presence if the financing suddenly dried up. By the time you realize
that it’s David Schwimmer (Ross from the TV show Friends) hiding under a massive 1970s mustache to play a fledgling hit man, it’s too late — The Iceman has set
its hook. Cults always find a way to attract new members.
— KEN KORMAN
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GREETINGS FROM TIM
BUCKLEY (NR) — The
biopic about a young Jeff
Buckley (Penn Badgley)
focuses on his relationship
with a close friend and
memories of his late father,
folk singer Tim Buckley,
whom he barely knew. Tickets $7 general admission,
free for New Orleans Film
Society members and CAC
members. 7 p.m. Tuesday,
Contemporary Arts Center,
900 Camp St., (504) 5283800; www.cacno.org
THE LESSER BLESSED
(R) — A teenager from a
remote town in Canada
deals with life in high
school. Tickets $7 general
admission, $6 students and
seniors, $5 members.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday
and June 4-6, 9:30 p.m.
Monday, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center,
1618 Oretha Castle Haley
Blvd., (504) 827-5858;
www.zeitgeistinc.net

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(NR) — A French-Jewish
gay mailman living in Finland
returns to his zany family in
Paris after a series of quarrels with his boyfriend. Tickets $7 general admission,
$6 students and seniors,
$5 members. 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday-Thursday, Zeitgeist
Multi-Disciplinary Arts
Center, 1618 Oretha Castle
Haley Blvd., (504) 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
(NR) — Cary Grant plays a

In Greetings From Tim Buckley, musician
Jeff Buckley (Penn Badgley) lives in the
shadow of a famous father be barely
knew, folk musician Tim Buckley. The
Contemporary Arts Center and the New
Orleans Film Society present a screening
at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 28.

AKG PRESENTS THE
ART OF DR. SEUSS. 716
Bienville St. — Works by Dr.
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the St. Claude Arts District often is
considered a post-Hurricane Katrina
phenomenon — and it is, mostly —
but this show illustrates how deep
the experimental Marigny/Bywater art
scene’s roots really are. Curated by
Beau tardy and Michael Fedor, both
veterans of Fedor’s former (19871990) Marigny-based Galerie Avant
Gout, it also includes works by Pati
D’Amico and William Warren, whose
Waiting Room Gallery in Bywater
was active from 1997 to 2008. Both
spaces catered to emerging artists,
a focus that continues in this show.
tardy, who worked for MtV in New
York for years, was inspired by mass
media’s fixation on erotic titillation
as we see in GotCha (pictured), his
manipulated image of a woman in a
vortex of flashy graphics like tV ads
that inspire salacious thoughts based
on nothing more than subliminal suggestion. the paintings by his French
counterpart, Louis Jean Gorry, are far
more graphic, but his style is as raw
as scrawled subway graffiti. Somehow slick is more insidious.
Fedor’s intricately surreal collages
look like something an absintheinspired French Quarter Max Ernst
might have created, a sensibility
complemented by D’Amico’s mystically tinged canvas The Medium,
among others. In 2008, she and partner Warren moved to Water Valley,
Miss., where the omnipresent kudzu
inspired him to paint humanoid vine
critters like Kudzu Blues Man, a wavy
gravy exercise in animist pointillism in
the form of a vinous Delta musician. throw in Margaret Meinzer’s adjacent expo of pop-expressionist dreamscapes and it’s a weirdly wonderful
show in the grand St. Claude tradition of ad hoc epiphanies by artists with
eternally youthful attitudes. It’s a sensibility that resonates neatly with French
digital artist Nicolas Sassoon’s Green Waves, a vast surround-sound and
light environment of choreographed pixels in motion at the May Gallery in
Bywater, and Irish artist Jane Cassidy’s electronic music-video composition at Parse Gallery. Both of these sublimely ethereal shows at two of the
newer art spaces in town extend a long local tradition of experimental art in
unlikely places. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDt

Call for
artiStS
ALL HAIL OUR SACRED
DRUNKEN WOOKIEE:
A CHEWBACCHUS ART
SHOW. 3 Ring Circus’ The
Big Top, 1638 Clio St., (504)
569-2700; www.3rcp.com
— the Intergalactic Krewe of
Chewbacchus seeks works
in all mediums that celebrate
fandom (sci-fi, fantasy, horror,
comics, gaming, etc.) for an
upcoming exhibition at the
Big top. Email chewbacchusartshow@gmail.com for
details. Submissions deadline
is June 14.
NO DEAD ARTISTS NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART. Jonathan Ferrara
Gallery, 400A Julia St., (504)
522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com — Artists can
apply to be included in the
annual juried exhibition at
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. One
artist from the September exhibition will win a solo show at
the gallery. Visit the website for
details. Submissions deadline
is June 15.

muSEumS
AMISTAD RESEARCH
CENTER. 6823 St. Charles
Ave., (504) 862-3222 — “Am
I Not a Brother, Am I Not a
Sister?: An Exhibition Commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation,” through
June 28.
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
CENTER. 900 Camp St.,
(504) 528-3800; www.cacno.
org — “A thousand threads,”
works by Luba Zygarewicz,
through Sunday. “Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other transformations,” an exhibit curated
by Miranda Lash; “Beyond
Beasts: the Art of Court 13”;
“I’m Not Lost, Just Undiscovered,” works by New Orleans
teenagers curated by the CAC
teen Board; both through
June 16. “After You’ve Been
Burned by Hot Soup You Blow
in Your Yogurt,” site-specific
installation by Margot Herster,
through Aug. 18.

THE ADVENTURES OF
BUTT BOY AND TIGGER.
Elm Theatre, 220 Julia St.,
(504) 218-0055; www.
elmtheatre.org — steven
Dawson’s comedy follows
two men who meet online
and embark on a raunchy
ride through the world of internet chatting. tickets $15.
8 p.m. thursday-saturday,
through June 8.

Just when pompous period melodramas like The Phantom of the Opera
seemed to have cornered the market
on serious musical theater, Next To
Normal ran off with a pulitzer prize,
among many other honors. this
inventive oddity, deftly produced by southern rep, might be characterized as
the revenge of the middle class. it’s contemporary, suburban and a maelstrom
of psychological torments.
the show is a soft rock opera. almost all the narrative is sung, and a fourpiece band under the direction of Jefferson turner accompanies the impressive cast.
bill walker’s set is a two-level abstract metallic structure, and most of the
time it represents the new york home of the goodman family.
wife and mother Diana goodman (leslie Castay) has had bipolar syndrome
since her son gabe died 16 years ago at the age of 18 months. teenage
gabe (Clint Johnson) is one of the main characters, and we realize he is a
ghost in his mother’s mind.
Diane’s teenage daughter natalie goodman (madison Kerth) is a promising
musician and hopes to earn a university scholarship. she is wretchedly jealous
of her dead brother, who still dominates her mother’s affections. a ray of hope
shines on her in the form of henry (matthew thompson), a musician who falls
in love with her. husband Dan goodman (richard hutton) struggles to stand
by his wife and help guide her back to normalcy.
there are many laughs amid this wreckage, and they are all the funnier
because they are not forced. the family turns to a doctor (michael Krikorian)
for help and also to pills. lots of pills. when they don’t do the trick, the doctor
recommends electroconvulsive therapy.
the sometimes-perplexing narrative becomes clearer as you recognize how
the pieces of the puzzle all fit together. the complexities are counterbalanced
as cast members throw themselves into their parts with mesmerizing conviction. the singing is impressive, and Dan Zimmer’s lighting mirrors the psychic
fireworks of the plot.
gradually, one realizes the allure of Diana’s ghostly son has a dark side. his
sweetest moments bring her perilously close to the grave, and the emotional
tangle plays out interestingly. the script is more challenging than those of
most musicals, and under blake Coheley’s direction the cast turns in a stunning performance. — Dalt wonK

BUST-A-RHYME TEEN RAP
CONTEST. New Orleans
Public Library, Martin Luther
King Branch, 1611 Caffin
Ave., (504) 529-7323; www.
nutrias.org — Rappers ages 11
to 18 can compete with either
freestyle or written raps. They
can compete solo, as half of a
duo or as part of a group. Call
(504) 596-2695, visit www.nutrias.org or email mlandrum@
neworleanspubliclibrary.org
for details. Free registration.
1 p.m.

St. Ann streets — The weekly
market features fresh produce,
baked goods, Louisiana
seafood, handmade beauty
products, art, crafts and entertainment. Visit www.icdnola.
org for details. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
STEP BY STEP: THE JOURNEY WITH ALZHEIMER’S
EDUCATION SERIES. Vista
Shores Assisted Living and
Memory Care, 5958 St. Bernard Avenue, (504) 288-3737
— The Alzheimer’s Association
and the New Orleans Regional
Advisory Council host the
series that includes information for caregivers and family
members on the basics of
Alzheimer’s disease. Free admisison. Call (800) 272-3900
or visit www.alz.org/louisiana
for details. 6 p.m.
THURSDAYS AT TWILIGHT.
Pavilion of the Two Sisters,
City Park, 1 Palm Drive, (504)
482-4888 — A different musician performs every week at
the event that includes food,
mint juleps, wine, beer and
soft drinks. Admission $10, $3
children ages 5-12. 6 p.m.

The versatile oyster
is the life of the party
at the New Orleans
Oyster Festival. There
is a shucking contest
Saturday and a raw
oyster-eating contest
Sunday. More than
20 local restaurants
set up booths serving oysters raw and
char-broiled and
in tacos, po-boys,
gumbo and pasta
dishes. There also are
non-seafood options,
plus sno-balls and
desserts. The musical
lineup includes the
Stooges Brass Band
and Shamar Allen
and the Underdawgs and others on Saturday. The
Brass-A-Holics, The Revivalists and Gin Blossoms
play on Sunday. There’s also a children’s tent, cooking
demonstrations, craft vendors and a heritage area with
displays about the oyster industry in Louisiana.
— WILL COVIELLO

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CALL FOR
APPLICATIONS
HUMANA COMMUNITIES
BENEFIT GRANT. Humana
awards a $100,000 grant to
a local nonprofit working to
improve health experiences or
build healthy communities. Visit
www.humana.com/hcb for
details. Application deadline
is July 30.

CALL FOR
VOLUNTeeRS
AMERICAN CANCER
SOCIETY. American Cancer
Society, 2605 River Road,
Westwego, (504) 833-4024
or (800) ACS-2345; www.
cancer.org — The American
Cancer Society needs volunteers for upcoming events
and to facilitate patient service
programs. Opportunities are
available with Relay for Life,
Look Good … Feel Better,
Hope Lodge, Man to Man,
Road to Recovery, Hope Gala
and more. Call for information.
ANOTHER LIFE FOUNDATION VOLUNTEERS.
Another Life Foundation seeks
volunteers recovering from
mental illness to help mentor
others battling depression
and suicidal behaviors. Free
training provided. For details,
contact Stephanie Green at
(888) 543-3480, anotherlifefoundation@hotmail.com or
visit www.anotherlifefoundation.org.
BAYOU REBIRTH WETLANDS EDUCATION. Bayou
Rebirth seeks volunteers for
wetlands planting projects,
nursery maintenance and other
duties. Visit www.bayourebirth.
org for details.
BIG BROTHERS BIG
SISTERS VOLUNTEERS.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Southeast Louisiana, 2626
Canal St., Suite 203, (504)
309-7304; www.bbbssela.
org — Big Brothers Big Sisters
of Southeast Louisiana needs
volunteers to serve as mentors. A volunteer meets two
to three times a month with
his or her Little Brother or
Sister. You can play games,
watch movies, bake cookies,
play sports or plan any other

Adults: $10 / Children 5-12: $3
Children 4 & Under = FREE
Mint Juleps and other refreshments
available for purchase
For more information call

(504) 483-9488

outings you both would enjoy.
Call for information.
CASA NEW ORLEANS. The
organization seeks volunteer
Court Appointed Special Advocates to represent abused
and neglected children in New
Orleans. The time commitment
is a minimum of 10 hours per
month. No special skills are
required; thorough training and
support is provided. Call Brian
Opert at (504) 522-1962 ext.
213 or email info@casaneworleans.org for details.
GREATER NEW ORLEANS
FAIR HOUSING ACTION
CENTER. The center seeks
part-time civil rights investigators with excellent writing skills,
reliable transportation and no
criminal convictions to help
expose housing discrimination
in the New Orleans metro area.
Call (504) 717-4257 or email
mmorgan@gnofairhousing.org
for information.
GREEN LIGHT NEW
ORLEANS. The group that
provides free energy-efficient
lightbulbs seeks volunteers
to help install the bulbs in
homes. Email peter.schamp@
greenlightneworleans.org or
visit www.greenlightneworleans.org/volunteerapply.html
for details.
HANDSON NEW ORLEANS. The volunteer center
for the Greater New Orleans
area invites prospective volunteers to learn about the various
opportunities available, how
to sign up for service projects
and general tips on how to be
a good volunteer. Call (504)
304-2275, email volunteer@
handsonneworleans.org or
visit www.handsonneworleans.
org for details.
HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS.
Harmony Hospice, 519
Metairie Road, Metairie, (504)
832-8111 — Harmony Hospice
seeks volunteers to offer companionship to patients through
reading, playing cards and
other activities. Call Jo-Ann
Moore at (504) 832-8111 for
details.
IRON RAIL. The book collective seeks volunteers to
table shows and other events,
help catalog the library, host
free movie nights, organize
benefits and other duties.
Email ironrailbookcollective@
gmail.com or visit www.ironrail.
org for details.
JACKSON BARRACKS
MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS.
The museum seeks volunteers
to work one day a week for
the Louisiana National Guard
Museum. Volunteers prepare
military aircraft, vehicles and
equipment for display. Call
David at (504) 837-0175 or
email daveharrell@yahoo.com
for details.

LOUISIANA SPCA VOLUNTEERS. The Louisiana SPCA
seeks volunteers to work with
the animals and help with
special events, education and
more. Volunteers must be at
least 12 years old and complete a volunteer orientation
to work directly with animals.
Email Dionne Simoneaux at
dionne@la-spca.org for details.
MEAL DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS. Jefferson Council
on Aging seeks volunteers to
deliver meals to homebound
adults. Gas/mileage expenses
will be reimbursed. Call Gail at
(504) 888-5880 for details.
NATIONAL WORLD WAR
II MUSEUM. National World
War II Museum, 945 Magazine
St., (504) 527-6012; www.nationalww2museum.org — The
museum accepts applications
for volunteers to meet and
greet visitors from around the
world and familiarize them
with its galleries, artifacts
and expansion. Call (504)
527-6012 ext. 243 or email
katherine.alpert@nationalww2museum.org for details.
OPERATION REACH
VOLUNTEERS. Operation
REACH and Gulfsouth Youth
Action Corps seek college
student volunteers from all over
the country to assist in providing recreation and education
opportunities for New Orleansarea inner-city youth and their
families. For information, visit
www.thegyac.org and www.
operationreach.org.
SENIOR COMPANION
VOLUNTEER. New Orleans
Council on Aging, Annex Conference Room, 2475 Canal St.,
(504) 821-4121; www.nocoa.
org — The council seeks volunteers to assist with personal
and other daily tasks to help
seniors live independently.
Call for details.
START THE ADVENTURE
IN READING. The STAIR
program holds regular volunteer training sessions to work
one-on-one with public school
students on reading and language skills. Call (504) 8990820, email elizabeth@scapc.
org or visit www.stairnola.org
for details.
TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION. The Teen Suicide
Prevention Program seeks
volunteers to help teach
middle- and upper-school New
Orleans students. Call (504)
831-8475 for details.

CALL FOR
WRITERS
GRAND CIRCUS PUBLISHING. The group accepts submissions from New Orleansbased writers for a short story
collection about alcohol. Email
info@grandcircuspublishing.
com for details. Submissions
deadline is Saturday.

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Dear New Orleans Job Guru,
“As a person progresses in his or her career and moves into management and perhaps senior
management, is there a point in which it is no longer necessary (or appropriate) to include
the entire work history in the resume? Thanks.”
— Donna D., Metairie, LA
Dear Donna,
Occasionally, clients tell me they heard that, “You only have to go back 10 years on
your résumé.” I put that type of advice in the same category as other pronouncements made by well-meaning but uninformed “experts” who are not on the front
Grant Cooper lines of today’s job search battles. For a 35-40 year old candidate to fail to document
what he/she did for 5-10 years after leaving college would be a transgression few decision-makers
would overlook in the interview selection process.

Gambit > bestofneworleans.com > maY 28 > 2013

The basic answer to your question, Donna, is that it entirely depends on the situation at hand. For example, whether you include your entire work history on your résumé would depend in large measure on
the job you are applying for, the nature of the jobs you held earlier in your career, and how old you are.

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was applying to a higher level regional management position in the biomedical sales field. We left her
six years of restaurant work entirely off of her résumé and began it with her first job after graduating.
Since the graduation date and her first biomed job matched up, the six years was unnecessary, making
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One of the techniques we use here at Strategic Résumés is to create a section immediately following
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Of course, there are cases in which older jobs are entirely relevant, as in the case of those hoping to
change career directions back to something they did in earlier years, or where the job announcement
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SENIOR STAFF ATTORNEY
Senior Staff Attorney for Greater
New Orleans Fair Housing Action
Center. Law degree from accredited School of Law, admission to
or willingness to sit for Louisiana
State Bar, and five years of
experience in housing or civil
rights litigation. Must have demonstrable commitment to civil
rights. Salary commensurate
with experience. Mail cover letter, resume, and references to:
Ronald Morrison, Greater New
Orleans Fair Housing
Action Center,
404 South Jefferson Davis
Parkway, New Orleans, Louisiana
70119. No phone calls or faxes.
Position closes
June 1, 2013.
www.gnofairhousing.org

Offers Volunteer Opportunities.
Make a difference in the lives of
the terminally ill & their families.
Services include: friendly visits
to patients & their families,
provide rest time to caretaker,
bereavement & office assistance.
School service hours avail.
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NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY given that
Thomas W. Hirth, Jr., the duly
appointed, acting and qualified
executor of the Succession of Dolores
R. Hirth and Thomas W. Hirth, Sr.,
has, pursuant to the provisions of
the Code of Civil Procedure, Article
3281, petitioned this Honorable Court
to sell, at private sale, for the price
of SIXTY THOUSAND AND NO/100
($60,000.00) DOLLARS, payable in
cash, the following described property
belonging to the succession, to-wit:
A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND,
together with all of the buildings and
improvements thereon, and all the
rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and
appurtenances thereunto belonging
or in anywise appertaining, situated in
the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that section thereof known
as JEFFERSON PARK SUBDIVISION,
in SQUARE “I” thereof, bounded by
Julius Avenue, Morris Avenue, Jefferson Park West, and Honore Drive,
designated by the NO. 2 on a survey
made by Adloe Orr, Jr., Civil Engineer,
dated June 2, 1950, a copy of which
is annexed to an act passed before
Margaret Gaudin, Notary Public,
dated June 2, 1950, and according
to which, said lot commences at a
distance of Fifty (50’) feet from the
corner of Julius Avenue and Morris
Place, and measures thence Fifty
(50’) feet front on Julius Avenue, by a
depth between equal and parallel lines
of One Hundred Ten (110’) feet.
Improvements thereon bear Municipal
number 603 Julius Avenue.
Being the same property acquired
by Helen L. Hammond, wife of/and
John H. Hirth by Act before Stanley
McDermott, Jr., Notary Public, dated
December 21, 1970, and recorded at
COB 726, Folio 372.
NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with
the law made and provided in such
cases, notice is hereby given, that
Thomas W. Hirth, Jr., executor, proposes to sell the aforesaid immovable
property, at private sale, for the price
and upon the terms aforesaid, and
the heirs, legatees and creditors are
required to make opposition, if any they
have or can, to such course, within
seven (7) days, including Sundays and
holidays, from the day whereon the last
publication of this notice appears.
BY ORDER OF THE 24th Judicial
District Court
on this 29th day of April, 2013
Attorney: Daniel R. Martiny
Attorney: 131 Airline Dr., Ste. 201
Metairie, LA 70001
Telephone: 504-834-7676
Gambit: 5/7/13 & 5/28/13
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of
Danoda R. Knockum, please contact
Ralph Bickham, Attorney at Law, 1515
Poydras Street, 23rd Floor, Suite 2355
New Orleans, Lousiana 70112 or call
504-584-5730.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of
Elmore Arnold Gibson, Sr, or his heirs,
please contact Norlisha Parker Burke,
atty, 504-444-1943.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of
RODNEY B. THOMAS, SR. AND JOYCELYN M. THOMAS, please contact Justin
A. Reese, Atty, 2216 Magazine St., New
Orleans, LA 70130,
(504) 525-1500.

STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO.: 723-136 DIV. I

STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH OF JEFFERSON
WHEREAS, the duly named and qualified administratrix, L. Marlene Quarles, has filed a Petition to the Court
for authority to sell at private sale the
hereinafter described property, to wit:
THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF
GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and
all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages
thereunto belonging or in anywise
appertaining, situated in the State of
Louisiana, Parish of Jefferson, City of
Kenner, in that subdivision known as
CHATEAU ESTATES EAST, SECTION
2, in accord with a plan of sucdivision
by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E., dated
March 25, 1975, approved by the City
of Kenner under Ordinance No. 1722,
registered in COB 835, folio 167.
According to said plan of subdivision,
said portion of ground is described
as follows:
LOT 13 in SQUARE 10, which said
square is bounded by Normandy
Drive, Anjou Drive, Brittany Drive
and 41st Street. Lot 13 commences
272.98 feet from the corner of
Normandy Drive and 41st Street,
measures 60 feet front on Normandy
Drive, same width in the rear, by a
depth between equal and parallel lines
of 125 feet. And according to survey
by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated
June 18, 1976, resurveyed October 2,
1976, said lot has the same measurements and location as above set forth,
except that it now commences 264.98
feet from the new right of way line of
41st Street.
The improvements thereon bear the
Municipal No. 9 Normandy Drive.
Acquired by the Decedent at CB 3297,
page 841 and further at CB 3298,
page 992, official records of Jefferson
Parish, Louisiana.
For the total gross sale price of
$225,000.00 cash. The property
will be sold pursuant to those terms
and conditions as more fully set forth
in the said Purchase Agreement
attached to the Petition For Authority
To Sell Immovable Property At Private
Sale filed in this proceeding.
NOTICE is hereby given to all parties
to whom it may concern, including the
heirs and/or creditors of the decedent
herein, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to
such application, at any time, prior to
the issuance of the order or judgment
authorizing, approving and homologating the application; and that such
order or judgment may be issued after
the expiration of seven (7) days from
the date of the last publication of such
notice, all in accordance with law.
By Order of the Court,
Jon A. Gegenheimer
Clerk of Court
Attorney: Ronald J. Vega
Bar No. 13038
D’Aquila, Mullins, & Contreras
Address: 3329 Florida Ave.
Kenner, LA 70065
Telephone: 504-469-1866
Gambit: 5/28/13 & 6/18/13
Anyone knowing the whereabouts
of Charles A. Ferguson, formerly of
Harvey, LA, contact Carl J. Selenberg,
Attorney at Law, 504-835-1053

STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO. 721-100 DIV. B

WHEREAS, the Provisional Administratrx of the above estate has made her
application to the court for the sale at
private sale of the immovable property
hereinafter described, to wit:
A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND,
together with all the buildings and
improvements thereon, and all the
rights ways, privileges, servitudes,
appurtenances and advantages
thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the PARISH OF
JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in
Section 47, Township 12 South, Range
10 East, Southeastern District of Louisiana, East of the Mississippi River,
in WEST LABARRE SUBDIVISION, as
shown on a print of survey made by
Clifford G. Webb, C.E., dated October
4, 1950, on file in the office of the
Clerk of Court, revised February 23,
1951, and annexed to an act passed
before Jerome Meunier, Notary Public,
dated July 6, 1951, according to
which said lot is designated by the
NO. 8 in SQUARE NO. 3, bounded by
Lurline Drive, Berkwick and Westbury
Streets and Claiborne Parkway Subdivision (or Claiborne Drive side), which
Lot No. 8 commences at a distance of
132.50 feet from the corner of Lurline
Drive, the same in width in the rear,
by a depth of 71 feet, between equal
and parallel lines.
All as more fully shown on white print
copy of survey made by Clifford G.
Webb, dated July 2, 1951.
The Improvements thereon bear the
Municipal No. 808 Lurline Drive, Jefferson, Louisiana.
UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND
CONDITIONS, TO-WIT:
All cash to seller in accordance
with the terms of that Agreement to
Purchase and all amendments thereto,
annexed hereto in globo as Exhibit “A.”
Notice is hereby given to all parties
whom it may concern, including the
heirs and creditors of the decedent
herein, and of this estate, be ordered
to make any opposition which they
have or may have to such application
at any time prior to the issuance of
the order or judgment authorizing,
approving and homologating such
application and that such order or
judgment may be issued after the
expiration of seven (7) days from the
date of the last publication of such
notice, all in accordance with law.
BY ORDER OF THE COURT
Kim Garland, Clerk
THIS THE 29TH DAY OF APRIL, 2013
Attorney: Kevin C. Schoenberger
Address: 201 St. Charles Ave., Ste.
2422
New Orleans, LA 70170
Telephone: (504) 525-1143
Gambit: 5/7/13 & 5/28/13
Pursuant to the requirements of La.
R.S. 47:6007 (D) (2) (e), Chemical
Mind Production, LLC has completed
principle photography on the feature
film titled “2 Bedroom 1 Bath”. Any
creditor will need to file a claim by June
15, 2013. All claims should be sent to:
Chemical Mind Production, LLC, 102
Cambridge Drive, Belle Chasse, LA or
via fax at (504) 524-2969. Please note
that the outstanding obligations are not
waived should a creditor fail to file by
the specified date.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE
PARISH OF ORLEANS
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO.:2013-2232 DIV. N
DOCKET 8

NOTICE TO SELL
IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
AT PRIVATE SALE
SUCCESSION OF
SHERMAN B. REYNOLDS, II
Whereas Marc Hauser, the Ancillary
Administrator of the above Estate, has
made application to the Court for the
sale at private sale of the immovable
property hereinafter described, to-wit:
TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND,
together with all the buildings and
improvements thereon, and all of the
rights, ways, servitudes, privileges, appurtenances and advantages thereunto
belonging or in anywise appertaining,
situated in the Second District of the
City of New Orleans, in Square 462,
bounded by St. Ann, Moss, Dumaine
and Hagan Avenue, designated as Lots
16 and 17 as shown on sketch by W.J.
Seghers dated June 5, 1910, copy of
which is annexed to act before H. L.
Loomis, Jr., on January 3, 1913, according to which sketch said lots adjoin
and measure as follows:
Lot 17 forms the corner of Moss and
St. Ann Streets, and measures 30 feet,
two lines (30’2”’) front on Moss Street,
30 feet (30’) in width in the rear, by
a depth and front on St. Ann Street of
122 feet, 10 inches, 6 lines (122’10”
6’”) and a depth on the other side line
dividing it from Lot 16 of 121 feet, 9
inches, 6 lines (121’9”6”’).
Lot 16 measures 30 feet 1 line (30’1
“‘) front on Moss Street, 30 feet (30’)
in width in the rear, by a depth on the
side dividing it from Lot 17 of 121 feet,
9 inches, 6 lines (121 ‘9”6”’) and a
depth on the other side line towards
Dumaine Street of 120 feet 9 inches
(120’9”).
According to survey by Gilbert &
Kelly, Surveyors, dated December 13,
1938, copy of which is annexed to act
before Frank Macheca, Notary Public,
dated December 14, 1938, property
herein above described is situated in
the same district and square, has the
same lot numbers and measures as
herein above set forth.
BEING THE SAME PROPERTY acquired
by Succession of Sherman B. Reynolds
from Succession of Constance Reynolds Green by Judgment of Possession
dated March 27, 2013, registered in
Conveyance Office o f the Parish of
Orleans, in CIN 530580.
UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND
CONDITIONS, TO-WIT:
For the price and sum o f Six Hundred
Eighty Thousand ($680,000.00) Dollars cash, with the succession to
pay proration of taxes, and for all
proper certificates and transfer taxes.
Notice is hereby given to all parties
whom it may concern, including the
heirs and creditors of the decedent
herein, and of this estate, be ordered to
make any opposition which they have
or may have to such application, at any
time, prior to the issuance of the order
or judgment authorizing, approving and
homologating such application and that
such order or judgment may be issued
after the expiration of seven
(7) days, from the date of the last publication of such notice, all in accordance
with law.
DALE N. ATKINS, Clerk
Attorney: Lawrence J. Springer
Address: 1430 Henry Clay Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70118
Telephone: (504) 895-5292

CLASSIFIEDS
CIVIL DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE
PARISH OF ORLEANS
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO.: 11-8470 DIV. B

SUCCESSION OF
SANDRA MCELVEEN ROBIHO
NOTICE TO LEASE IMMOVABLE
PROPERTY
WHEREAS, the administrator of
the above Succession, has made
application to the Court for the lease
of a portion of immovable property
situated in the Parish of Orleans, State
of Louisiana, bearing municipal number
2126 A.P. Tureaud Ave, New Orleans,
Louisiana 70119, and more particularly
described as follows: THAT CERTAIN
PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND,
together with all the buildings and
improvements thereon and all of the
rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto
belonging or in anywise appertaining
being situated in the Third District of the
City of New Orleans, in Square 1050
bounded by A.P. Tureaud (formerly
London Avenue), N. Miro, N. Galvez,
Aubry and Havana Streets, which lot is
designated by the No. 8 on a sketch of
survey by W.J. and C.J. Seghers, D.C.S.
dated June 18, 1926, and according
to which sketch said Lot No. 8 commences at a distance of 100 feet from
the corner of A.P. Tureaud and N. Miro
streets, and measures thence 49 feet, 3
inches, 2 lines front on London Avenue,
by 100 feet in depth on the line dividing
it from Lot No. 7 and 107 feet, 8 inches,
7 lines on the other side line and 9
feet, 3 inches, 1 line in width in the rear
line. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS
AND CONDITIONS: $2,250 monthly
rent for a term of 6 months – Notice
is hereby given that an order granting
such authority may be issued after the
expiration of seven (7) days from the
date of this publication, and that an
opposition may be filed at any time prior
to the issuance of the order.

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE
PARISH OF ORLEANS
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO.: 10-4893 DIV. N-8

SUCCESSION OF
GERTRUDE MARIA WABNIG
NOTICE TO SELL
IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
Notice is given that the Executor of
this Succession, Norbert Wabnig, has
petitioned this Court for authority to
sell the immovable property described
herein below belonging to the decedent
at private sale in accordance with the
provisions of La. C.C.P. Article 3281
for the price and sum of One hundred
forty five thousand and No/100 Dollars
(145,000.00) cash, “as is,” subject to
the terms and conditions as contained
in the Agreement to Sell attached to
the Petition filed in these proceedings.
The immovable property proposed to
be sold at private sale is described
as follows:
All that certain piece or portion of
ground, together with all the buildings
and improvements thereon, and all the
rights, ways, means, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages
thereunto belonging or in anywise
appertaining being situated

in Section 47, Township 7 South,
Range 11 East, St. Tammany Parish,
Louisiana, in that part thereon known
as Flowers Estates Subdivision, Section
A, according to the survey and plat by
E. J. Champagne dated January 22,
1956, and the survey by Robert A.
Berlin dated June 16, 1963, revised
June 25, 1963 and being more fully
described as Lot 69 and the Northerly
one-half of Lot 68 and being more fully
described as follows, to wit:
From the South East intersection of
Camelia and Dogwood Drives, go in a
southerly direction along the easterly
line of Camelia Drive a distance of 828
feet to the Point of Beginning.
From the Point of Beginning, being
the North West corner of lot 67, go
South 75’ 32 min. East 1173.83 feet
to the West bank of the Tchefucte river;
thence recommence at the point of
beginning and go southerly along the
west line of Camelia Drive 150 feet to
the center of Lot 68; thence South 75’
32 min. East 800 feet more or less to
the West bank of the Tchefuncte River;
thence follow the meanderings of the
West Bank of the Tchefuncte northeasterly to the point heretofore set.
Any legatee, heir or creditor who
opposes the proposed sale must file
any opposition which they have or may
have to such application, at any time,
prior to the issuance of the order or
Judgment authorizing, approving and
homologating, such Petition and such
Order or Judgment may be issued
after the expiration of seven (7) days
from the date the last publication of
such Notice appears, all in accordance
with law.
By Order of the Court,
Attorney: Provino Mosca,
Bar Number 8473
Address: 7212 Stoneleigh Dr.
Harahan, LA 70123
Telephone: 504-738-3994
Gambit: 5/7/13 & 5/28/13

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE
PARISH OF ORLEANS
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO. 11-8470 DIV. B

SUCCESSION OF MELISSA MARIA
ROBIHO
NOTICE TO LEASE IMMOVABLE
PROPERTY
WHEREAS, the administrator of the
above Succession, has made application to the Court for the lease of a
portion of immovable property situated
in the Parish of Orleans, State of
Louisiana, bearing municipal number
2126 A.P. Tureaud Ave, New Orleans,
Louisiana 70119, and more particularly
described as follows: THAT CERTAIN
PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND,
together with all the buildings and
improvements thereon and all of the
rights, ways, privileges, servitudes,
advantages and appurtenances
thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining being situated in the Third
District of the City of New Orleans, in
Square 1050 bounded by A.P. Tureaud
(formerly London Avenue), N. Miro,
N. Galvez, Aubry and Havana Streets,
which lot is designated by the No. 8
on a sketch of survey by W.J. and C.J.
Seghers, D.C.S. dated June 18, 1926,
and according to which sketch said Lot
No. 8 commences at a distance of 100
feet from the corner of A.P. Tureaud
and N. Miro streets, and measures
thence 49 feet, 3 inches, 2 lines front
on London Avenue, by 100 feet in
depth on the line dividing it from Lot
No. 7 and 107 feet, 8 inches, 7 lines
on the other side line and 9 feet, 3
inches, 1 line in width in the rear line.
UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND
CONDITIONS: $2,250 monthly rent
for a term of 6 months – Notice is
hereby given that an order granting
such authority may be issued after the
expiration of seven (7) days from the

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE
PARISH OF ORLEANS
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO.: 2012-10193 DIV. N
DOCKET NO. 8
SUCCESSION
OF
KIRBY E. HILLS, JR.
ALSO KNOWN AS
KIRBY E. HILLS
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR AUTHORITY TO
PERFORM EXECUTORY
CONTRACT
NOTICE IS GIVEN that Daisy Hills
Strickland and Thelma Hills McLean,
Testamentary Co-Executrixes of the
Succession of Kirby E. Hills, Jr. also
known as Kirby E. Hills, has, pursuant
to the provisions of Louisiana Code of
Civil Procedure article 3227, applied
for authority to carry out the terms
of a Counter Letter to transfer all title
and interest in 312 Portsmouth Drive
in Slidell, Louisiana executed by the
decedent prior to his death, a copy of
which is attached as Exhibit A to the
Petition for Authority to Perform Executory Contract filed herein.
The Order granting such authority may
be issued after the expiration of seven
(7) days from the date of the publication of this Notice. Any opposition to
the Application must be filed prior to
the issuance of the Order.
DALE ATKINS,
CLERK OF COURT
CIVIL DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE PARISH
OF ORLEANS
Attorney: D. Juan M. Hernandez
Address: 1100 Poydras Street, Suite
2300
New Orleans, LA 70163-2300
Telephone: (504) 585-7000
Gambit: 5/28/13
Times-Picayune & The Louisiana Weekly

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE
PARISH OF ORLEANS
STATE OF LOUISIANA

NO.: 13-4773 DIV. H
DOCKET #1 SEC. 12
SUCCESSION OF
EUNICE HONORE,
WIFE OF/AND
VERNON WHITE
NOTICE TO SELL
IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
AT PRIVATE SALE
Whereas the Administrator of the
Succession of Vernon White has made
application to the Court for the sale at
private sale of the immovable property
hereinafter described, to wit:
Lot 23, Square 33, Pontchartrain Park
Subdivision Section 2, third municipal
district, municipal number 4508
Mithra Street, New Orleans,
Louisiana, on the terms of $25,000.00,
all cash to seller.
Notice is hereby given to all parties

whom it may concern, including the
heirs and creditors of the decedent
herein, and of this estate, be ordered
to make any opposition which they
have of may have to such application,
at any time, prior to the issuance of
the order or judgment authorizing,
approving and homologating such
application and that such order or
judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date
of the last publication of such notice,
all in accordance with law.

MONTH THE BID IS SUBMITTED MUST
BE ATTACHED TO THE BID FOR THE
FISCAL AGENT CONTRACT.

Dale N. Atkins,
Clerk

THE ENVELOPE CONTAINING BIDS IS TO
BE CLEARLY MARKED “FISCAL AGENT
BID.” ALTERNATIVELY, THE BANK
MAY SUBMIT A BID ELECTRONICALLY
TO HYPERLINK “mailto:KYOUNG@
JPCLERKOFCOURT.US” KYOUNG@
JPCLERKOFCOURT.US WITH THE SUBJECT LINE MARKED AS “FISCAL AGENT
BID”. ELECTRONICALLY SUBMITTED
BIDS WILL BE OPENED ON THE DATE
AND TIME SPECIFIED AS THE DEADLINE
FOR RECEIVING BIDS.

THE JEFFERSON PARISH CLERK OF
COURT’S OFFICE RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR REJECT ANY OR
ALL BIDS.

Gambit: 5/28/13 & 6/18/13 &
The Louisiana Weekly

JON A. GEGENHEIMER
CLERK OF COURT
JEFFERSON PARISH

LEGAL NOTICE

PROPOSAL NUMBER 13-001
THE JEFFERSON PARISH CLERK
OF COURT’S OFFICE WILL RECEIVE
SEALED BIDS UNTIL THURSDAY, JUNE
10, 2013 AT 10:30 A.M. AT WHICH
TIME BIDS WILL BE OPENED AND
PUBLICLY READ AT THE JEFFERSON
PARISH CLERK OF COURT’S OFFICE,
200 DERBIGNY STREET, GENERAL
GOVERNMENT BUILDING, SUITE 5600,
GRETNA, LOUISIANA FOR A FISCAL
AGENT FOR THE PERIOD BEGINNING
ON OR ABOUT JULY 1, 2013 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2015.
TO BE A QUALIFIED BIDDER, THE
BANK MUST OPERATE WITHIN JEFFERSON, PARISH, LOUISIANA AND
MUST HAVE A STATE OR NATIONAL
BANK CHARTER.
THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
THE PROPOSED FISCAL AGENCY
CONTRACT ARE THAT THE FISCAL
AGENT SHALL PERFORM ALL DUTIES
AND DISCHARGE ALL OBILIGATIONS
IMPOSED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE
OF LOUISIANA UPON FISCAL AGENTS
AND SHALL RENDER THE FOLLOWING
SERVICES TO THE JEFFERSON PARISH
CLERK OF COURT’S OFFICE :
COLLATERALIZE ALL TIME AND
DEMAND DEPOSITS 100% WITH
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
THE BANK WILL PROVIDE CHECKS
FOR ALL ACCOUNTS AT NO COST TO
CLERK OF COURT’S OFFICE.
ALL BANK STATEMENTS WILL BE
CUT-OFF ON THE LAST DAY OF THE
MONTH FOR ALL ACCOUNTS.
STATEMENTS MUST LIST EACH
CHECK CLEARING IN CHECK NUMBER
ORDER. IMAGES OF CANCELLED
CHECKS MUST BE RETURNED ON
COMPACT DISK WITH STATEMENT.
ALL ACCOUNTS MUST BE ACCESSIBLE
THROUGH THE INTERNET FOR PURPOSES OF TRANSFERS AND VIEWING.
THE BANK WILL PROVIDE EQUIPMENT
FOR PROCESSING OF CREDIT CARD
CHARGES.
THE BANK WILL PROVIDE PROCEDURES TO ALLOW INTERNET
COMMERCE FOR ONLINE CHARGES
(PAYPAL).
THE BANK WILL SUBMIT INFORMATION REGARDING OTHER SERVICES
AVAILABLE AND THEIR COST. THE
BANK WILL INDICATE THE AVAILABILITY OF CONTRACT EXTENSIONS
UNDER THE SAME TERMS.
THE BANK WILL SUBMIT COMPETITIVE
BIDS FOR THE INTEREST RATE TO BE
PAID ON ALL DEPOSITS. THE INTEREST RATE ON REGISTRY FUNDS IS TO
BE FIXED FOR TWO YEARS.
THE BANK WILL SUBMIT COMPETITIVE
BIDS FOR ALL CHARGES AND COSTS.
A SWORN STATEMENT OF THE
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE BANK
SUBMITTING THE BID AS OF THE FIRST
DAY OF THE MONTH PRECEDING THE

GAMBIT: 5/21/13, 5/28/13 and
6/4/13

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COURT FOR THE
PARISH OF JEFFERSON
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO.: 713862 DIV. C

SUCCESSION OF
WILLIAM JAMES LEE, JR.
CONSOLIDATED WITH
IN RE: ROSARIA DIMITRI LEE
NO.: 720858 DIV. C
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is given that the Administratrix of
the Successions of William James Lee,
Jr. and Rosaria Dimitri Lee has petitioned
the 24th Judicial District Court for authority to sell Succession property at private
sale for $5,500.00, as follows:
2005 Toyota Camry, bearing VIN
4T1BE32K15U617350
Any heir or creditor who opposes the
proposed sale must file his opposition prior to the issuing of an order or
judgment authorizing, approving and
homologating such application, and
that such order may be issued after the
expiration of seven (7) days from the
date of publication of this notice, all in
accordance with law.
By Order of the Court this 21st day of
May, 2013.
Attorney: Christine W. Marks
Conroy Law Firm
Address: 3838 N. Causeway Blvd.,
Ste 3130
Metairie, LA 70002
Telephone: (504) 830-3450
Gambit: 5/28/13
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the FY 7-113 to 6-30-14 proposed Budget for the
Clerk of Civil District Court of Orleans
Parish is available for public inspection in the Clerk of Court’s Office,
421 Loyola Avenue, Room 402, New
Orleans, LA 70112. A public hearing
will be held at 10:00 a.m. on June 7,
2013 at 421 Loyola Avenue, Room 308
- Division “H,” New Orleans, LA 70112.
The budget is fiscally conservative
and expenditures are budgeted within
estimated funds available.
BUDGET SUMMARY
REVENUES
Fees, charges and commissions for
services: $5,205,948
Court costs, fees and charges
4,378,542
Fees for recording legal documents
1,068,468
Charges for use of photocopier
0
FEMA Stabilization Project
Reimbursements 274,351
Interest income

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE
PARISH OF ORLEANS
STATE OF LOUISIANA
NO. 2013-3659 DIV. A

S U C C E S S I O N OF
LEANDER OSCAR ROBERTS
(a/k/a Leander O. Roberts, Sr.)
NOTICE
NOTICE IS GIVEN that Darryl Burnell
Roberts and Leander Joseph Roberts,
Jr., the Co-Administrators of the Succession of Leander Oscar Roberts, are
applying for authority to sell at private
sale, on terms of SIXTY THOUSAND
AND 00/100 ($60,000.00) DOLLARS
cash (FOR THE ENTIRE PROPERTY),
the immovable property owned in community by June Darensburg wife of/
and Leander O. Roberts described as
follows, to wit:
ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT OR PORTION OF LAND, together with all the
buildings and improvements thereon,
and all the rights, ways, privileges,
servitudes and advantages thereunto
belonging or in anywise appertaining, lying and being situated in FIRST
DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans,
Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana,
in SQUARE NO. 242, bounded by Baronne, Melpomene, Carondelet and Terpsichore Streets, designated as LOT NO.
13-A on a survey made by J.J. Krebs &
Sons, Inc., Surveyor, dated November
9, 1977, a copy of which is annexed to
an act passed before Edmond G. Miranne, Jr., N.P., dated March 17, 1978,
and according thereto, said lot forms
the corner of Melpomene and Baronne
Street, measures thence 30’ front on
Baronne Street, the same width in the
rear, by a depth of 90’3” between equal
and parallel lines. Said lot is composed
of a portion of original Lot 13.
Municipal No. 1500 Baronne Street,
New Orleans, Louisiana
An order authorizing Administrator to do
so may be issued after seven days from
the date of second publication of this
notice. An opposition to the application
may be filed at any time prior to the
issuance of such an order.
By Order of the Court,
Dale N. Atkins, Clerk
Attorney: Scott R. Simmons, L.L.C.
Louisiana Bar Roll No. 23304
Address: 1820 St. Charles Ave., Ste.
201
New Orleans, LA 70130
Telephone: (504) 896-7909
Gambit: 5/28/13 & 6/18/13

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